Writes Dwight Garner, in "Salman Rushdie Reflects on His Stabbing in a New Memoir/'Knife' is an account of the writer’s brush with death in 2022, and the long recovery that followed" (NYT).
"Rushdie decides against trying to speak to [his attacker] face to face. Instead, he imagines an interview with him, a conversation that consumes 30 pages of this book. I will not give the contents of this imagined interview away, except to say that the topics include radicalization, the ruthlessness that comes with the blinkered conviction that your cause is just, translation, hatred, laughter, literacy, gym memberships, mothers and the New York Giants.... Their fictional exchange did put me in mind of a bitter line from [a book about the Charlie Hebdo massacre]: 'If we start respecting people who don’t respect us, we might as well close up shop.'"
२४ टिप्पण्या:
60 Minutes going silent for 27 seconds was quite effective.
"my failure to try to fight back"
In all these years Rushdie never took self-defense training? Amazing. No concealed carry either, I assume.
"The targets of violence experience a crisis in their understanding of the real"
Also amazing. Surely Rushdie was under no illusion about the real danger.
"Knife"
The very title is an evasion. Can't blame Rushdie for being scared though. He's still braver than most.
"the ruthlessness that comes with the blinkered conviction that your cause is just"
Actually, it just comes with being a serious Muslim.
Rushdie is doing what others do, they fail to understand that when shocked and surprised, your natural inclination is to freeze and process what's going on. Its only later that the fight flight reflex kicks in.
Unless you expect it, your brain needs time to process what is going on. BTW, someone else Ive read said that many people when confronted with a knife or a gun and know they are going to die or be seriously injured just "give up". I don't know why, but they do.
27 seconds. New York has some extremely slow-moving State Troopers. By design, one is forced to contemplate given the burgeoning barbarity encouraged by New York's ruling class?
If Islam had a significant presence in the United States in 1789, would the First Amendment have taken the form it has today?
My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun;
Coral is far more red than her lips' red;
If snow be white, why then her breasts are dun;
If hairs be wires, black wires grow on her head.
I have seen roses damasked, red and white,
But no such roses see I in her cheeks;
And in some perfumes is there more delight
Than in the breath that from my mistress reeks.
I love to hear her speak, yet well I know
That music hath a far more pleasing sound;
I grant I never saw a goddess go;
My mistress, when she walks, treads on the ground.
And yet, by heaven, I think my love as rare
As any she belied with false compare.
Beautiful post. Rushdie is very good at explaining things. And the message he writes between the lines is pro Second Amendment and pro USMC. Killing killers first has great social value.
This is why cops are trained to shoot any knife-wielding threat within 20 feet of them. That knife can be in you in seconds...and you get dead.
The Religion of Peace shows up at a book talk.
YouTube clip: Sam Harris on pain and suffering
Temujin said...
"The Religion of Peace shows up at a book talk."
Basically a death cult.
"what do I imagine I could have done?"
Ask the ninety-something old lady who blew the shit out of a break-in who had already hit her with a baseball bat.
@Temujin, quite right! Didn’t young Malak Afaneh assure us that is was a myth that Islam promotes violence?
RCOCEAN II:
Rushdie is doing what others do, they fail to understand that when shocked and surprised, your natural inclination is to freeze and process what's going on. Its only later that the fight flight reflex kicks in.
Fight or flight can also be instant. I believe your thoughts as to the reality of life can influence it greatly. That training someone mentioned.
I was attacked and hit on the side of the head from behind. The blinded by a flash of white kind of thing. I "came to" and found myself already beating the hell out of the attacker.
No idea how the fight went, it was already over.
Quaestor:
If Islam had a significant presence in the United States in 1789, would the First Amendment have taken the form it has today?
The Constitution is areligious so, not until after a two front war, no. None of it would.
If I had Rushdie's money I would pay for a jailhouse hit and take the guy out.
But that's just me...
the problem was lack of security: One local cop and one state policeman. And the audience wasn't screened for weapons.
the problem was lack of security: One local cop and one state policeman. And the audience wasn't screened for weapons. Why? because they were for peace and doing these things would suggest they weren't.
I read Satanic Verses around 1989. I thought at the time that the concluding image from the book, of an endless line of Muslims being consumed by a gigantic Mullah, was the true and personal reason that they put out a fatwa against him.
The attack on him was somehow inevitable.
And, someone is out there planning another.
Religion of peace.
Now that lefties in America have taken up Iran's cause, maybe one of them will finish the job with Rushdie.
Funny how no one has written a satirical novel about Islam since The Satanic Verses.
Hopefully other groups won’t learn the obvious lesson.
Make the Crusades Great Again™
"The Institute" is one of the most civil places in America.
Well, it was.
Several years ago, an episode of Curb your enthusiasm made light of the danger to Rushdie.
Rushdie participated in the jocularity
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