Emptied Shoes
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.
"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.
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