Week 17 Reading Notes A: The Perforated Sheet - Salman Rushdie

The Perforated Sheet - Salman Rushdie (1129-1143)

I loved this reading. The quotes were so profound.

“ Clock-hands joined palms in respectful greeting as I came. “ (1131) - his midnight birth

“… I had been mysteriously handcuffed to history, “(1131)

“I, Salem Sinai, later variously called Snotnose, stainface, Baldy, sniffer, Buddha and even piece of the moon, had become heavily in bordered in fate – at best of times a dangerous sort of involvement. And I couldn’t even wipe my own nose at the time. “ (1131) - So many names, he seems very bothered by it toothless them all. As of claiming them into his identity. Others opinions of him. He had a so many names, he seems very bothered by it to list them all. As of claiming them into his identity. Others opinions of him interwoven into the fabric of who he is when in fact he could’ve had a say.

He says he will be 31 years old, could this number be significant because 31 is how many days are in a traditional month? (1132)

He doesn’t have a hope of saving his own life yet he fears of certainty, is not absurd to not wish to preserve ones own life? (1132)

“I have been a swallower of lives; and to know me, just the one of me, you’ll have to swallow the lot as well. “ 1132)

… As my Clock-ridden crime-stained birth. “(1132)

Aadam Aziz- grandfather 1132- he will not bow or touch his face to the earth for any God or man because he hurt his nose praying. Later his nose itching is a sign that trouble and depression is coming. (1133)

“ in those days Travellers were not shot as spies if they took photographs of bridges, and apart from the Englishmans’ house boats on the lake, the valley had hardly changed since the Mongol Empire. “ (1133)

“No, returning, he saw through traveled eyes. Instead of the beauty of the tiny Valley Circle to buy giant teeth, he noticed the narrowness, the proximity of the Horizon; and felt sad, to be at home and feel so utterly enclosed. “(1133)

Quote on the morning when the valley, gloved in a prayer- mat, punched him on the news, he had been trying, absolutely, to pretend that nothing had changed. “ (1133)

“… He learned that India – like radium – had been ‘discovered‘ by the Europeans; “(1134)