A few more chapters down now. Still struggling with really "getting into" the story, which should have happened by page 220. It's not that he's not a good writer, because he is, and there are some interesting parts, but the story just isn't doing it for me. But I will persevere!
A couple of lines I like:
"A race of pink conquerors" (it's all about the colonialism, isn't it?)
"Pearl-testicled children" (that's just hilarious)
And I was particularly interested to learn that one of the languages of India, Malayalam, is stated by Rushdie to be the only palindromic language in the world. Good to know - it could come up on Jeopardy some time, right?
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