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Today is not that good day, I do not want to die. I'm not a soul but a seal in the company of seals. We lounge scattered in the dry fountain white stone sculpted… More
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Near the end of @SalmanRushdie's new novel, the narrator is blinded by an angry rival. It's eerily prescient: Rushdie lost an eye in an attack on him last year; however, the publisher says the manuscript was already completed. https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/books/story/2023-01-30/salman-rushdies-new-novel-victory-city-reminds-us-how-his-writing-changed-the-world