He warns that, “The world’s numbskull intellectuals, which form 99.9% of all intellectuals, will feed you lies.” So, naturally, once he is dead and buried, the notion that it is her duty to do the work of the 0.1% shapes the way she conducts all of her intimate relationships. Zebra, Oloomi the writer-or me, the other Oloomi? Zebra’s father, Abbas Abbas Hosseini, an eccentric literary genius, drills into her a message that shapes her entire belief system. It depends on who is answering the question. Would you say that this 0.1% is a privileged group? The narrator of Call Me Zebra ( CMZ) sees herself as part of what she calls the 0.1%, a tiny fraction of the population that engages with the world through literature.
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