This Saturday will mark the launch of a puzzling (and oddly intriguing) book, El Diccionario de Pensamientos de Fidel Castro—that is, the “Dictionary of Thoughts of Fidel Castro.” How does one alphabetize thoughts? The Cuban state newspaper Granma reported that the volume alphabetizes “key criteria and concepts expressed by the Commander-in-Chief” and provides helpful detail on these.
The better question might be: how long is the volume? Fidel is known for having made impressively long speeches; he sometimes improvised marathon speeches for four to five solid hours. Of course, he still publishes opinion-type pieces regularly in Granma, so he has been adding a barrage of material for years to the body of “criteria and concepts” that might be included in the Diccionario.