Quotes from Salman Rushdie's books, and about them
Midnight's Children on What Is To Be Done?: “he has placed the cheroot on a high shelf on top of stacked copies of Vorwärts and Lenin’s What Is To Be Done?”
Quichotte on The Clouds: “In Aristophanes' play The Clouds, Socrates floats overhead in a balloon basket, getting high so he can elevate his thoughts.”
Quichotte on The Man Who Was Thursday: “The Secret Agent, The Man Who Was Thursday, tales of espionage and secret societies, these were his guides.”
Quichotte on The Secret Agent: “The Secret Agent, The Man Who Was Thursday, tales of espionage and secret societies, these were his guides.”
Quichotte on The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: “Douglas Adams, the author of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, had died after going to the gym as everyone in California was obliged to do by the state's unwritten laws.”
Quichotte on Crime and Punishment: “He's a rebel in a forest memorizing Crime and Punishment because all the great texts have to be memorized to survive because all the actual books have been burned.”
Quichotte on Fahrenheit 451: “the temperature at which paper catches fire is two hundred and thirty-two point seven eight degrees Celsius, better known as Fahrenheit 451.”