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"Pepper it was that brought Vasco da Gama's tall ships across the ocean... We were 'not so much sub-continent as sub-condiment', as my distinguished mother had it." @SalmanRushdie, The Moor's Last Sigh.

#StandWithSalman

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#StandWithSalman #writingcommunity #SalmanRusdhie @SalmanRushdie @Lisadwan @Bonn1eGreer @elizacarthy @pdcawley #read from Joesph Anton #PenAmerica for freedom to create and with thanks to Salman Rushdie

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