“That is correct,” said the cricket. “È proprio vero. I’m a projection of your brain, just in the way that you started out as a projection of his. It seems you may be getting an insula.” “A what?” “As I was saying,” said the cricket, “he wants you to be fully human as badly as you do. He imagines it all the time. And to get you there, he will need to give you an insula.” “I’m talking to an Italian cricket,” Sancho said to the stars, “whose vocabulary is bigger than mine, and who apparently wants to discuss insulation.” “Insul-ah, not insul-ate,” the cricket corrected him. “This is the Latin of
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I love the way Rushdie has cleverly worked in and reworked the "ínsula", the island promised to Sancho in the Spanish of Cervantes' Don Quixote.
