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