Harriet wrote: None, as far as I know - I noticed it in a series of articles he wrote last year about revisiting India. It was his love for India that he was measuring.

Ah, yes. Now that I think about it, it sounds like something out of the discussion his narrator has in "The Ground Beneath her Feet" about Ormus Cama's songs as comments on India. To make this vaguely B7-connected: Falling out of love with one's country/cause - could this have happened to Blake, if he hadn't died on Gauda Prime but had seen the post-Federation turning into anything but his dream?

Harriet: But it's so nice to meet someone who says something nice about Rushdie

I must be in the minority of people who came to Rushdie through "Haroun and the Sea of Stories", which I absolutely adored. (Okay, I have a soft spot for children's novels anyway, but I still think it was great by any standards.) I then read "Midnight's Children", "The Moor's Last Sigh", and "The Ground Beneath her Feet"; out of these, "The Moor's Last Sigh" is my favourite - I have mixed feelings about the other two, but I definitely wasn't dissapointed, as they both entertained me and made me think.

Harriet: that I'll give you another, which is from a book:

And a great quote it is. Thank you.

Tanja