Rushdie

"Item, personality was homogeneous and men were to be held responsible for their acts!- Quite the reverse: we were such contradictory entities that the concept of personality itself ceased, under close scrutiny, to have meaning!- God existed! - God was dead!- One might, indeed one was obliged to, speak confidently of the externalness of the absolutes!- Good grief, but that was the purest drivel; relatively speaking, of course!-"


May 6, 1996