Re: MD Salman Rushdie's Lila

From: ian glendinning (psybertron@gmail.com)
Date: Tue Nov 22 2005 - 19:02:52 GMT

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    Pete,
    No hypotheses to posit so far.
    I was a betting man, I'd put money on some indirect causal connection.
    (I notice Jonathan Marder previously brought Rushdie into MoQ.)
    Just looking for clues.
    Ian

    On 11/22/05, -Peter <pcorteen@gmail.com> wrote:
    > 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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