St. John did not fall in the trap, however, and his book did not proceed chronologically following the Pasha from his childhood to his old age, the narration culminating with his different military adventures. More than a hundred years after his death, though, books are still being written which, having been based on an archival material that had been cleverly selected in the first place, appear as if they had been dictated by the Pasha himself, and in his own words.

XREF: Builds on the earlier claim that a writer's narrative order can subvert a subject's mystique (loc 66). SEED: The observation that even modern books reproduce the Pasha's chosen self-narrative offers a research angle on how archives bias historiography. Builds on: "A writer's narrative order can subvert a subject's mystique."

Khaled Fahmy, All the Pasha_s Men_ Mehmed…, loc. 1685