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Heads Ripe for Plucking "Dictionaries a series of extraordinary decreesMahmoud Al WardaniAn Arab tyrant once infamously declared, I see heads that are ripe for plucking. In Mahmoud Al Wardanis novel of tyranny and oppression, an impaled head seeks solace in narrating similar woes it sustained in previous incarnations. Beheadings, both literal and metaphoricaltorture, murder, decapitation, brainwashing, losing ones headare the subject of the six stories that unfold. The narrative takes us from the most archetypal