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" But it was Genesis that got him, the Vulgate that was his namesake Saint Jerome’s work. Genesis, especially chapter one, verse three. Dixitque Deus: fiat lux. Et facta est lux. Translated by himself into his personal Bombay “Wulgate”: And God said, Cheap Italian motor car, beauty soap of the film star. And there was Lux. Please, Daddy, why did God want a small Fiat and a bar of soap, and also please, why did he get the soap only? Why couldn’t he make the car? "
― Salman Rushdie , Two Years Eight Months and Twenty-Eight Nights
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" Mr. Geronimo's life up to this point had been a journey of a type that was no longer uncommon in our ancestors' peripatetic world, in which people easily became detached from places, beliefs, communities, countries, languages, and from even more important things, such as honor, morality, good judgment, and truth; in which, we may say, they splintered away from the authentic narratives of their life stories and spent the rest of their days trying to discover, or forge, new, synthetic narratives of their own. "
― Salman Rushdie , Two Years Eight Months and Twenty-Eight Nights
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" En aquella época, la Era de la Extrañeza y de la Guerra de los Mundos que vino después, el presidente de Estados Unidos era un hombre desacostumbradamente inteligente, elocuente, reflexivo, sutil, de palabras y acciones mesuradas, buen bailarín (aunque no tan bueno como su mujer), difícil de enfadar, de sonrisa fácil, un hombre religioso que también se consideraba un hombre de acciones razonadas, atractivo (aunque con las orejas un poco de soplillo), tan cómodo con su propio cuerpo como un Sinatra renacido (aunque reticente a entonar canciones románticas) y daltónico. Era un tipo práctico y pragmático y tenía los pies plantados con firmeza en el suelo. En consecuencia, fue completamente incapaz de reaccionar de forma apropiada al desafío que le lanzó Zumurrud el Grande, que era un desafío surrealista, caprichoso y monstruoso. Y tal como se ha mencionado ya, Zumurrud no atacó solo, sino que vino en bloque, en compañía de Zabardast el Hechicero, Rubí Resplandeciente el Poseedor de Almas y Ra’im Bebesangre, con su afilada lengua de sierra. "
― Salman Rushdie , Two Years Eight Months and Twenty-Eight Nights
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" In all his writing he had tried to reconcile the words “reason,” “logic” and “science” with the words “God,” “faith” and “Qur’an,” and he had not succeeded, even though he used with great subtlety the argument from kindness, demonstrating by Qur’anic quotation that God must exist because of the garden of earthly delights he had provided for mankind, and do we not send down from the clouds pressing forth rain, water pouring down in abundance, that you may thereby produce corn, and herbs, and gardens planted thick with trees? He was a keen amateur gardener and the argument from kindness seemed to him to prove both God’s existence and his essentially kindly, liberal nature, but the proponents of a harsher God had beaten him. Now "
― Salman Rushdie , Two Years Eight Months and Twenty-Eight Nights