the last book I ever read (The General of the Dead Army: A Novel by Ismail Kadare, excerpt two)

from The General of the Dead Army: A Novel by Ismail Kadare:

The general smiled.

“Do you know something?” he said. “I’ve noticed that our conversations during the past three days or so have the oddest way of sounding like dialogues from some of the modern plays I’ve seen. Extremely boring ones, I might add.”

The priest smiled in his turn.