Thursday, March 13, 2008

The Conqueror


Given Douglas Adams' fascination with Genghis Khan (refer first few pages of Hitchhiker), it isn't surprising that he wrote a nice little short story on the true history of Ol' Genghis and his pals. Here it is.

DNA/The Private Life of Genghis Khan
A casual observer would not have noticed anything remarkable about the man who rode at their centre, muffled in a heavy cloak, tense, hunched forward on his horse as if weighed down by a heavy burden, because a casual observer would have been dead.

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