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well done reflection with various meditations on a truly horrifying personal endeavor
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"So my first thought when I saw this murderous shape rushing toward me was: So it’s you. Here you are. It issaid that Henry James’s last words were “So it has come at last, the distinguished thing.” Death was coming at me, too, but it didn’t strike me as distinguished. It struck me as anachronistic.
This was my second thought: Why now? Really? It’s been so long. Why now, after all these years? Surely the world had moved on, and that subjectwas closed. Yet here, approaching fast, was a sort of time traveler, amurderous ghost from the past."
"And so that Chautauqua morning I experienced both the worst and best of human nature, almost simultaneously. This iswho we are as a species: We contain within ourselves both the possibility of murdering an old stranger for almost no reason—the capacity in Shakespeare’s Iago which Coleridge called “motiveless Malignity”—and we also contain the antidote to that disease—courage, selflessness, the willingness to risk oneself to help that old stranger lying on the ground."
"Language, too, was a knife. It could cut open the world and reveal its meaning, its inner workings, its secrets, its truths. It could cut through from one reality to another. It could call bullshit, open people’s eyes, create beauty. Language was my knife."
"The writer Jodi Picoult says this in her novel My Sister’s Keeper: “If you meet a loner, no matter what they tell you, it’s not because they enjoy solitude. It’s because they have tried to blend into the world before, and people continue to disappoint them.” I find this helpful. I see you now at twenty-four, already disappointed by life".
"Art is not a luxury. It stands at the essence of our humanity, and it asks for no special protection except the right to exist.It accepts argument, criticism, even rejection. It does not accept violence."
This was my second thought: Why now? Really? It’s been so long. Why now, after all these years? Surely the world had moved on, and that subjectwas closed. Yet here, approaching fast, was a sort of time traveler, amurderous ghost from the past."
"And so that Chautauqua morning I experienced both the worst and best of human nature, almost simultaneously. This iswho we are as a species: We contain within ourselves both the possibility of murdering an old stranger for almost no reason—the capacity in Shakespeare’s Iago which Coleridge called “motiveless Malignity”—and we also contain the antidote to that disease—courage, selflessness, the willingness to risk oneself to help that old stranger lying on the ground."
"Language, too, was a knife. It could cut open the world and reveal its meaning, its inner workings, its secrets, its truths. It could cut through from one reality to another. It could call bullshit, open people’s eyes, create beauty. Language was my knife."
"The writer Jodi Picoult says this in her novel My Sister’s Keeper: “If you meet a loner, no matter what they tell you, it’s not because they enjoy solitude. It’s because they have tried to blend into the world before, and people continue to disappoint them.” I find this helpful. I see you now at twenty-four, already disappointed by life".
"Art is not a luxury. It stands at the essence of our humanity, and it asks for no special protection except the right to exist.It accepts argument, criticism, even rejection. It does not accept violence."
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Sorry, man. This one was just okay.
PHENOMENAL writing, but I couldn’t get past Rushdie’s 30+ year age gap with his wife :/
Started and finished on a flight after buying it in an airport book store. Beautifully written
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A terrifying reaffirmation of life and love.
3.5 - the first Salman Rushdie I've tried. Really well read and written by the author. Terrible attack, determined recovery and contemplation. Thought the parts on individuals known by their middle names and how a knife, unlike a gun, has many uses, were very interesting. Quite medical at times (from non-medical patient perspective), interesting on security etc.