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<text id=90TT2678>
<title>
Oct. 08, 1990: There Was This Storyteller. . .
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<history>
TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1990
Oct. 08, 1990 Do We Care About Our Kids?
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<source>Time Magazine</source>
<hdr>
GRAPEVINE, Page 23
There Was This Storyteller...</hdr>
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<p>By DAVID ELLIS/Reported by Sidney Urquhart
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<p> Next month Salman Rushdie's first book since The Satanic
Verses will reach U.S. bookstores. The initial printing (125,000
copies) is large for a children's book, which is what Haroun and
the Sea of Stories at first appears to be. But hold on. The tale
seems eerily parallel to Rushdie's predicament. There is a
storyteller named Rashid Khalifa, also known as the Shah of
Blah, who loses the gift of the gab and can no longer entertain.
What's worse, his condition is mysteriously linked to a fanatic
cult that wants to wipe out not only made-up tales but also
human speech. Children may take all this as make-believe, but
adult readers are free to perceive some veiled autobiography,
plus a wistful prophecy: in the end, the good guys live happily
ever after.
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</body>
</article>
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