Salman Rushdie

A Novel

Victory City

Laura Mei

When he spoke he used a soft voice, so that his answer had to be repeated many times, the words rippling out across the multitude like waves on the surface of the sea. "There is 𝘉𝘳𝘢𝘩𝘮𝘢𝘯," he said, "who is the ultimate and only reality, who is both cause and effect, who does not change but in whom all change is contained. And there is 𝘢𝘵𝘮𝘢𝘯, which is in everything that lives, which is the only true thing in everything that lives, which is in fact the only thing that lives, and which is one hundred and one percent the same as 𝘉𝘳𝘢𝘩𝘮𝘢𝘯. Identical. Same to same. Everything else is illusion: space, time, power, love, place, home, music, beauty, prayer. Illusion. There are only the two, which are one."

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