by Jordan Dotson | May 17, 2019 | Beautiful Prose
Too many people spouting too many words, and in the end those words will turn to bullets and stones. …from The Ground Beneath Her Feet, by Salman Rushdie. by Jordan Dotson | Sep 10, 2016 | Beautiful Prose, Things I wish I'd written
O, you know, this champagne is only for outward show, the moment it touches my lips it turns to water. …from a novel by Salman Rushdie. It’s controversial I’m told. by Jordan Dotson | Dec 5, 2014 | Beautiful Prose, Things I wish I'd written
We were language’s magpies by nature, stealing whatever sounded bright and shiny. …from Salman Rushdie’s imperfectly perfect novel, The Ground Beneath Her Feet, which I hesitantly allow to be considered the greatest “music novel” ever,... by Jordan Dotson | Jun 27, 2014 | Beautiful Prose, Things I wish I'd written
He knew what he knew: that the real world was full of magic, so magical worlds could easily be real. …from Haroun and the Sea of Stories, by one of my all-time favorite skirt-chasers, Salman Rushdie. Whenever I’m asked to defend my opinion that the young... by Jordan Dotson | May 1, 2014 | Beautiful Prose, Things I wish I'd written
“Are you familiar,” he said finally, “with the Bang?” “The Big Bang?” Luka asked. “Or some other Bang I don’t know about?” “There was only one Bang,” said Nobodaddy, “so the adjective Big is redundant...