“... learning the knack of disconnecting her sense of smell, until she could switch it off like a radio and in the bland silence of its absence could drown in the sound of Nazarébaddoor’s hypnotic voice without having her reverie interrupted by the scent of sheep shit or Nazarébaddoor’s own frequent and extraordinary buffalo farts.”
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Salman Rushdie (born June 19, 1947) is a British-Indian novelist and essayist. Known for his magical realism style, his novel Midnight's Children won the Booker Prize in 1981. His works often explore themes of cultural conflict, religion, and politics. In 1988, his novel The Satanic Verses sparked global controversy, leading to a fatwa issued by Iran's Ayatollah Khomeini calling for his assassination. Rushdie spent years in hiding under police protection. He remains a prominent voice in contemporary English literature, celebrated for his literary innovation and defense of free expression. more
“I don't know the ultimate fate of a suppressed fart.”
“Both the beauty and the pain come in waves. Both are teachers. Both shape us into who we become.”
“An embarrassed mind thinks their fart echoed across the mountains.”
“I am something incorrect: a hair in the cottage cheese. Something uncouth: a fart in the elevator.”
“Love is like a fart...If you have to force it … its probably shit...”