Salman Rushdie Quotes
Later, When His Desires Had Been Satisfied, He Slept In An Odorous Whorehouse, Snoring Lustily Next To An Insomniac Tart, And Dreamed. He Could Dream In Seven Languages: Italian, Spanic, Arabic, Persian, Russian, English And Portughese. He Had Picked Up Languages The Way Most Sailors Picked Up Diseases; Languages Were His Gonorrhea, His Syphilis, His Scurvy, His Ague,his Plague. As Soon As He Fell Asleep Half The World Started Babbling In His Brain, Telling Wondrous Travelers' Tales. In This Half-discovered World Every Day Brought News Of Fresh Enchantments. The Visionary, Revelatory Dream-poetry Of The Quotidian Had Not Yet Been Crushed By Blinkered, Prosy Fact. Himself A Teller Of Tales, He Had Been Driven Out Of His Door By Stories Of Wonder, And By One In Particular, A Story Which Could Make His Fortune Or Else Cost Him His Life.
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