Re: MD Salman Rushdie's Lila

From: -Peter (pcorteen@gmail.com)
Date: Tue Nov 22 2005 - 11:25:09 GMT

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    Hi Ian,

    that is intriguing from the point of view of coincidence; you postulate an
    acausal connecting principle?

    -Pete

    On 21/11/05, ian glendinning <psybertron@gmail.com> wrote:
    >
    > Salman Rushdie became infamous for his "Satanic Verses", and the Fatwa
    > against his "blasphemies", but I've recently been reading his
    > "Midnight's Children".
    >
    > The relevance here ?
    >
    > Midnight's Children was published (and won the Booker prize) in 1981.
    > The chronology references Kerouac and Heller, but not Pirsig or ZMM,
    > however in the narrative, .... which is a fantastic historical
    > biography, taking in the history of India, comparing and contrasting
    > the histories, customs and mythologies of Hindus, Muslims and
    > Christians in a whacky "strange fiction more credible than truth"
    > style of Martell's more recent "Life of Pi" ...
    >
    > ... one of Rushdie's heroines, a promiscuous heroine with a shady
    > past, is Lila, wife of a sea captain. Pisrig's Lila was published 10
    > years after Midnight's Children.
    >
    > Intriguing.
    > Ian
    >
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