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"Good fellows! Good fellows!" he repeats enthusiastically. "Do you know what they are yelling? Death to the Sultan! Good fellows! The old despotism is done for. The good times are at hand."
Schröder doesn't respond. He looks back in the direction of Constantinople -- a feeble strip of light shows him where it is; the sky is lighter there -- a pale reflection of the city lights. Far away, at the edge of the eastern horizon a black cloud gathers. And it seems to Schröder that this cloud has taken a strange shape... like a giant hand raised in threat from some far-distant, unknown place.
(Translation © Kenneth Kronenberg 2004)
From Die Hand des Unsichtbaren Imam
"The Hand of the Invisible Imam is the work of a very perceptive and politically astute outsider--Paul Farkas was a Hungarian Jew--and is a contemporary novel of the time. Extremely critical of German and Great Power short-sightedness, Farkas lost no opportunity to satirize the characters who came under his lens. However, the larger backdrop of the novel is the chasm between the thinking of European Enlightenment-based liberalism and that of parts of the East. The novel is a cautionary tale about the dangers of romanticization, ignorance, and arrogance."