As Dr. J.S. bPiven/b notes, ?Narcissistic rage breeds a manic readiness to experience the outer world as sinister, predatory, and so intolerably insulting that others must be punished and liquidated to avenge the humiliation? (bPiven/b, 2007, p. 9) b..../b Also in 1993, a translator of The Satanic Verses met with intellectuals at a bhotel/b in Sivas, Turkey. During the meeting, an angry mob of Islamic fundamentalists attacked the bhotel/b. The mob set the bhotel/b on fire. ...