Reading the Satanic Verses

I got a little better yesterday afternoon. I still couldn't move. I was sick of listening to Rush's defense of the Republican Conservatives Movement's defense of the US Constitution and Bill of Rights which are constantly under attack by the Liberal left. That sums up Rush.

So...I scanned my book shelf and pulled out Salman Rushdie's The Satanic Verses. I had just listened to a podcast, on Writer's and Company, from the CBC, where the host interviewed Salman.

I figured how special can his writing be and what was in this book that was so appalling to the Ayatollah? You want people to read a book...issue a Fatwah. When will we ever learn. If the Mullahs didn't want anyone reading the book, they just should have paid a NYT reporter to say "It was sooo boring."

The man writes like no other. I don't know if it is good or bad. It is just really different. You can get through an entire paragraph and not understand a single thing that just transpired.

I tried to find a paragraph, but now I seem to understand everything. I guess I got used to his style of writing. It sometimes takes me awhile. That is the difference between novels and literature. Novels you understand right away. Literature takes awhile and you have to slow down and have a fresh mind.

You cannot read literature when you are tired with television playing in the background.

You have to find a quiet corner on a rainy Sunday when the wife and children are out.

Literature can also end...not the way you wanted or expected it to. Sometimes it just ends. You want to be rewarded with a big glued to your seat ending....in literature that sometimes doesn't happen. That is the stress of reading literature. Anyone can die. Anytime it can end. Anyway it can end.