Salman Rushdie's twitter

[pharmakeiaspring]

is the most beautiful twitter I have yet found. It is a sparkling white lily of indian culture and philosophy in the sea of the gaudy tulips of celebrities talking about their gadgets and families, gritty british politics, and factual scientific updates that is my twitter feed.

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[helarxe]

I remember vaguely you read the Verses on my recommendation implicit or ex. How did you like it?

[pharmakeiaspring]

You remember that story in the Anglo-saxon chronicle (I think) about the King Edwin of Northumbria's conversion to christianity?

"The present life of man upon earth, O King, seems to me in
comparison with that time which is unknown to us like the
swift flight of a sparrow through mead-hall where you sit
at supper in winter, with your Ealdormen and thanes,
while the fire blazes in the midst and the hall is warmed,
but the wintry storms of rain or snow are raging abroad.
The sparrow, flying in at one door and immediately out
at another, whilst he is within, is safe from the wintry
tempest, but after a short space of fair weather, he im-
mediately vanishes out of your sight, passing from winter
to winter again. So this life of man appears for a
little while, but of what is to follow or what went before
we know nothing at all. If, therefore,. this new doctrine
[Christianity] tells us something more certain, it seems
justly to be followed in our kingdom."

Well, reading the Satanic Verses was like being that swallow, only instead of flying through a mead hall, you're flying through the ancient spice-scented halls of the Moghul palaces of the Punjab.

Thanks for the recommendation, although you're not the only one who inspired my reading it, my mother has it too. Also, it was under my eye in the bookshop when I had a voucher. Whenever I recommend it to anybody I always make sure to mention the whores who cosplay as the wives of the Prophet, which I think is the best part.

[pharmakeiaspring]

Sorry, my bad it was the work of the studious fellow buried not far from my workplace, in Durham Cathedral - Bede's Historia ecclesiastica gentis Anglorum.

[helarxe]

I'm never a factor, but through me all things get Fucted.

[pharmakeiaspring]

Yeah, you're a total conduit :P