Life is lived forward but is judged in reverse.
Salman RushdieRowan (Atkinson) pochmurně přikyvoval a dodal, že nedávno v jednom televizním skeči použil záznam klečících muslimů při páteční modlitbě, podle něj v Teheránu, s následujícím komentářem:" A pátrání po ájatolláhově kontaktní čočce pokračuje.
Salman RushdieTo live in Metropolis was to know that the exceptional was as commonplace as diet soda, that abnormality was the popcorn norm.
Salman RushdieSomewhere in the existing software there was a bug, a potentially lethal flaw. Nothing less than the unselfing of the self would do. If he could cleanse the whole machine, then maybe the bug, too, would end up in the trash. After that, he could perhaps begin to construct a new man.
Salman RushdieThe human race is a life sentence...it's a rough confinement, and sometimes we all need to break out of jail.
Salman RushdieHe was the child of a father who was not his father; but also the child of a time which damaged reality so badly that nobody ever managed to put it together again;
Salman RushdieWhat's a „culture“? Look it up. „A group of micro-organisms grown in a nutrient substance under controlled conditions“. A squirm of germs on a glass slide is all, a laboratory experiment calling itself a society. Most of us wrigglers make do with life on the slide; we even agree to feel proud of that „culture“. Like slaves voting for slavery or brains for lobotomy, we kneel down before the god of all moronic micro-organisms and pray to be homogenized or killed or engineered; we promise to obey.
Salman RushdieWho is the madder,’ Osman the clown whispered into his
bullock's ear as he groomed it in its small byre, ‘the madwoman,
or the fool who loves the madwoman?’ The bullock didn't reply.
‘Maybe we should have stayed untouchable,’ Osman continued. ‘A compulsory ocean sounds worse than a forbidden well.’ And the
bullock nodded, twice for yes, boom, boom.
The enemy for the fanatic is pleasure, which makes it extremely important to continue to indulge in pleasure. Dance madly. That is how you get rid of terrorism.
Salman RushdieTag: pleasure fundamentalism puritanism
Even if Shaheed had been able to hear me, I could not then have told him what I later became convinced was the truth: that the purpose of that entire war had been to reunite me with an old life, to bring me back together with my old friends. Sam Manekshaw was marching on Dacca, to meet his old friend the Tiger; and the modes of connection lingered on, because on the field of leaking bone-marrow I heard about the exploits of knees, and was greeted by a dying pyramid of heads; and in Dacca I was to meet Parvati-the-witch.
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