Read the Satanic Verses last month. The book is about freedoms - personal, political and societal. What the fatwa is wrong with that? I didn’t see anything in it that warranted author execution (this is subject matter for a rant, so I’ll leave it at that).

Here’s an excerpt from the book.

The real language problem: how to bend it and shape it, how to let it be our freedom, how to reposses its poisoned wells, how to master the river of words of time and blood…
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Language is courage: the ability to conceive a thought, to speak it, and by doing so to make it true.

And I thought language was limiting! Maybe if I could express myself like him I wouldn’t think so….***sigh!***