This photograph I took yesterday reminds me of a quote by Salman Rushdie:
“When I die, where will I be? A pair of emptied shoes.”
If you haven’t experienced the brilliance of Rushdie, I highly recommend reading The Satanic Verses, the book that caused such a stir that the Ayatollah Khomeini (supreme leader of Iran) issued a fatwa against him. He is a man of controversy and conviction and you don’t have to agree with his political views in order to enjoy his colorful writing. To me, it’s poetry. Here’s another:
“But names, once they are in common use, quickly become mere sounds, their etymology being buried, like so many of the earth’s marvels, beneath the dust of habit.”
Read it again. Can you hear the music? The cadence? It makes my mind dance.
Author: KateBitters
Kate Bitters is a Minneapolis-based author and freelance writer. She is the author of Elmer Left, Ten Thousand Lines, and He Found Me. One of her proudest/nerdiest moments was when Neil Gaiman read one of her short stories on stage at the Fitzgerald Theater.
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