No Exit Redux

I quoted this line Inez says in Sartre's (damn Frenchman) No Exit in a July post on the Governing Council and exit strategy:

One always dies too soon - or too late. And yet one's whole life is complete at that moment, with a line drawn neatly under it, ready for the summing up. You are - your life, and nothing else.

Something Saddam Hussein is confronting right now (I suspect in the end, George Bush will as well). This also reminds me of another line Garcin utters a little closer to the end of the play:

So this is hell. I'd never have believed it. You remember all we were told about the torture-chambers, the fire and brimstone, the "burning marl." Old wives' tales! There's no need for red-hot pokers. Hell is - other people!

And now Saddam's hell will be his impending trial by his people. Well, well, let's get on with it...

ntodd  ¶ 5:48 PM