The satanic verses by Salman Rushdie

Author:Salman Rushdie [Rushdie, Salman]
Format: epub
Tags: Unread
ISBN: 9780670825370
Publisher: Viking
Published: 1989-10-14T22:00:00+00:00

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"I have put my argument badly," Sufyan miserably apologized. "I meant only to reassure."

"What consolation can there be," Chamcha answered with bitter rhetoric, his irony crumbling beneath the weight of his unhappiness,

"for a man whose old friend and rescuer is also the nightly lover of his wife, thus encouraging --as your old books would doubtless affirm --the growth of cuckold's horns?"

* * *

The old friend, Jumpy Joshi, was unable for a single moment of his waking hours to rid himself of the knowledge that, for the first time in as long as he could remember, he had lost the will to lead his life according to his own standards of morality. At the sports centre where he taught martial arts techniques to ever--greater numbers of students, emphasizing the spiritual aspects of the disciplines, much to their amusement ("Ah so, Grasshopper," his star pupil Mishal Sufyan would tease him, "when honolable fascist swine jump at you flom dark alleyway, offer him teaching of Buddha before you kick him in honolable balls"), --he began to display such _passionate intensity_

that his pupils, realizing that some inner anguish was being expressed, grew alarmed. When Mishal asked him about it at the end of a session that had left them both bruised and panting for breath, in which the two of them, teacher and star, had hurled themselves at one another like the hungriest of lovers, he threw her question back at her with an uncharacteristic lack of openness. "Talk about pot and kettle," he said.

"Question of mote and beam." They were standing by the vending machines. She shrugged. "Okay," she said. "I confess, but keep the secret." He reached for his Coke: "What secret?" Innocent Jumpy. Mishal whispered in his ear: "I'm getting laid. By your friend: Mister Hanif Johnson, Bar At Law."

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