Or Maybe Two Oriental DespotsPosted on Wednesday, June 30, 2021Friday, June 25, 2021 by Douglas Wilson Sharing Options “And since that time, the three of them had enjoyed the kind of life that an oriental despot might envy. Peeled grapes, tapestried barges on the Nile, a long line of nubile activists, the lot” Ecochondriacs, p. 158