Like many an Iraqi scholar and student, SB's plays have always been dear to me and ever present in my mind, hence here's my ad-libbed Hamm-Clov dialogue






[Scene: Saddam and Deputy Tariq Aziz in a hide-out during the American-Iraqi liberation war leading to Saddam's long-awaited downfall on April 9th 2003, co-inciding on 138th anniversary of end of American civil war on Palm Sunday April 9th 1865]



Saddam: The Americans have forgotten us

Aziz: Forgotten us! You exaggerate

Saddam: I mean here in the vicinity of our hide-out

Aziz: But they bombard us from time to time

Saddam: Then the Americans haven't forgotten us