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(1992) Twentieth-century fantasists, Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan.
‘To be born again,’ sang Gibreel Farishta tumbling from the heavens, ‘first you have to die. Ho ji! Ho ji! To land upon the bosomy earth, first one needs to fly. Tat-taa! Taka-thun! How to ever smile again, if first you won’t cry? How to win the darling’s love, mister, without a sigh? Baba, if you want to get born again…’. Just before dawn one winter’s morning, New Year’s Day or thereabouts, two real, full-grown, living men fell from a great height, twenty-nine thousand and two feet, towards the English Channel, without benefit of parachutes or wings, out of a clear sky. (Rushdie 3)
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DOI: 10.1007/978-1-349-22126-4_15
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Prickett, S. (1992)., Centring the margins: postmodernism and fantasy, in K. Filmer (ed.), Twentieth-century fantasists, Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 183-192.
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