Salman Rushdie Quotes
There Was Once, In The Country Of Alifbay, A Sad City, The Saddest Of Cities, A City So Ruinously Sad That It Had Forgotten Its Name. It Stood By A Mournful Sea Full Of Glumfish, Which Were So Miserable To Eat That They Made People Belch With Melancholy Even Though The Skies Were Blue ...
And In The Depths Of The City, Beyond An Old Zone Of Ruined Buildings That Look Like Broken Hearts, There Lived A Happy Young Fellow By Name Of Haroun, The Only Child Of The Storyteller Rashid Khalifa, Whose Cheerfulness Was Famous Throughout That Unhappy Metropolis, And Whose Never-ending Stream Of Tall, And Winding Tales Had Earned Him Not One But Two Nicknames. To His Admirers He Was Rashid The Ocean Of Notions, As Stuffed With Cheery Stories As The Sea Was Full Of Glumfish; But To His Jealous Rivals He Was The Shah Of Blah.
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