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The art of the novet is a thing I cherish as dearly as the book-burners of Bradford value their brand of militant Islam Literature is where I go to explore the highest and lowest places in human society and in the human spirit, where I hope to find not absolute truth, but the truth of the tale, of the imagination, and of (he heart. So the battle over ‘The Satanic Verses' is a dash of faiths, in a way Or, more precisely, it’s a dash of languages As my fictional character 'Salman' says of my fictional prophet 'Mahound,' ‘It's his Word against mine—Salman Rushdie.

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