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You forget, it’s not that Rushdie reworks myths, it’s that (“above all”!) his reworkings are “cavalier.” Perhaps even insouciant.
oh you are too funny!
i live in the town where a bookstore was bombed for having satanic verses in the window, so somehow my ears always perk up when i hear his name.
please do a column on the various shadings of lying, writing fiction, being a bush staff-member, forgetting, and truth.
it’s so hard to keep track.
the bookstore, after 50 years, has closed, the independents having a harder and harder time.
thing is, online bookstores can’t put books in their windows, and b & n won’t.
Wonderful post. The Guardian opiner seems to be saying that “But he writes fiction” is a defense against slander and libel.
do the chains and amazon have a stranglehold there like they do here?
hey! where did that icon come from??!
There is a hefty dose of irony in this article, you’re quite right. And Footman seems almost as critical of Rushdie as you do yourself! But I think he makes his point really neatly: Rushdie can give it but he can’t take it, and there’s the dilemma.
I didn’t actually need the article explained, but thanks anyway.
I simply do not understand your vehement reaction.
Footman is commenting (a) by saying that some authors do play fast and loose with history/fact/other literature, and in this Rushdie is no different from his detractor; and (b) that by his anger over Evans’s book, Rushdie puts himself in an invidious position because he has been such a vocal exponent of free speech.
Footman’s mistake is in assuming that because Rushdie’s cavalier use of fact in creating his fiction, he is somehow disqualified from wanting to sue Evans for libel.
Evans, the poor plodding dolt who sees a meal ticket in an expose of Rushdie’s eccentricities — allegedly titillated for the British palate — should not be allowed to publish lies.
Whatever your feelings for Rushdie, he is perfectly within his rights to feel pissed off.
Hey – we’ll just agree to disagree here. Very few Poms are worth getting heated up over anyway, let’s be honest.
I’m still a fan of your blog!
IMANI!!!! How are you? I’ve been gone for a while but I am back now… summer was crazy busy. Interesting post… I used to side with Rushdie (blindly I must say) in just about every subject… this made me think twice. Thanks.
JCR
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1 | Jenny
August 4, 2008 at 3:15 pm
You always find such funny articles! (Not funny like jokes. Funny like lunacy.) But seriously, though, life is very, very silly, and people’s capacity to carry on being silly without ever noticing that they are, it does my head in.