'An average day? I don't have average days,' Salman Rushie told Martin Amis in 1990. 'I play computer games. Chess. Super Mario. I am a master of Super Marios I and II.' VFArchive
is still with us. One feels the need to emphasize this fact: that he is still around. He is caught up in a trap or a travesty; he is condemned to enact his own fictional themes of exile, ostracism, disjuncture, personal reinvention; he occupies a kind of shadowland; but he is formidably alive. The Rushdie Debate has reached a choke point where no one seems to be able to speak naturally. In that sense the forces of humorlessness have already triumphed.
The church was Greek Orthodox, somber, dusty, big-domed, and full of writers. Rushdie entered promptly with his wife, the American novelist Marianne Wiggins."I was in shock," he now says. He looked excitable. We were all excitable. Saul Bellow calls it"event glamour.""Salman," I said, as we hugged ,"we'reworried about me." The Rushdies sat down beside me and my wife.
I often tell him this. I often tell him that if the Rushdie Affair were, for instance, the Amis Affair, then I would, by now, be a tearful and tranquilized three-hundred-pounder, with no eyelashes or nostril hairs, and covered in blotches and bums from various misadventures with the syringe and the crack pipe. He has gained a little weight and has resumed a very moderate cigarette habit; for a while he developed a kind of stress asthma.
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