Rushdie Talk: Authors@Google
October 23, 2009
Authors@Google has some interesting collection of talks. I enjoy watching on of those once in a while. This video where Rushdie’s talks chiefly about The Enchantress of Florence, is another charming exhibition by the man, who has a way with the words, love him or hate him.
Noteworthy is the long Q&A session at the end.
While talking about ambiguious characters in The Satanic Verses (which I haven’t read yet), he says (quick transcription by me, so not verbatim):
“… you have devilish angles, and angelic demons. I’m sounding like Dan Brown now … which i guess would be good for my bank balance but bad for me in every other way … but anyway, i did it first”
Watch it unless you hate him blindly (it’s an hour long video).
October 27, 2009 at 5:02 pm
Thanks for posting this. I belong to the “Love Him” category. Had never heard him speak before. Quite Charming (ergo Padma Lakshmi & other bevvy of beauties) .
Especially liked the way he talks about the concept of love. How we associate love with fidelity, companionship & other such idylic (?) things. Whereas it can very well be associated with unfaithfulness, separation, fights & other negative stuff.
Fascinating.
November 1, 2009 at 12:01 pm
Oh, so do I. Although I’ve just read Midnight’s Children. And his articles (I remember one he wrote on Gandhi. This was in Time Asia, I believe) are always a great read. Very charismatic yes.
November 1, 2009 at 5:05 am
I love him too .. but I can’t stand speeches..
coz you’ve left the link.. it must be worth my time.. I’ll come back for it later. : D
November 6, 2009 at 4:34 am
can’t tweet from office.. but yeah.. SRT remained on my mind all night long and whole of morning. I had the most saddest dreams or rather nightmares last night. Slept at 2 & woke up at 6am. The pain of last night’s heart break lingers.. & will linger for long.
November 6, 2009 at 6:01 am
Am not really proud of this rant (raw,crude,vulgar) but one needs a release, especially after such a draining & hope sapping night as yesterday’s :
http://parikrama.blogspot.com/2009/11/motivation.html
November 11, 2009 at 7:27 am
Thanks for posting it…
hmmm..after long time..
how r you my friend..
did you marry..
don’t forget those orders you gave me for the design of your invitation cards!