Salman Rushdie Quotes

... It Is A Matter Of Record That In Our Sorry Age With Its Prejudice In Favour Of Male Children Many Poor Families Donated To Their Favoured Cult-temple The Daughters They Could Not Afford To Marry Off Or Feed, In The Hope That They Might Live In Holiness As Servants Or, If They Were Fortunate, As Dancers; Vain Hopes, Alas, For In Many Cases The Priests In Charge Of These Temples Were Men In Whom The Highest Standards Of Probity Were Mysteriously Absent, A Failing Which Laid Them Open To Offers Of Cash On The Nail For The Young Virgins And Not-quite-virgins And Once-again-virgins In Their Charge. Thus Abraham The Spice Merchant Was Able To Use His Widespread Southern Connections To Harvest A New Crop, Entered In His Most Secret Ledgers As 'Garam Masala Super Quality', And Also, I Note With Some Embarrassment, 'Extra Hot Chilli Peppers: Green.

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