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A little focus is a wonderful thing, and in step across this line rushdie dissects thoughts and attitudes in the real world with laserlike lucidity and precision. Step across this line salman rushdie the tanner lectures on human values delivered at yale university february 25 and 26, 2002 636p. From one of the great novelists of our day, a vital, brilliant new book of essays, speeches and articles essential for our times. Step across this line seems to be his attempt to put all of this to rest so that now he can talk of other things. Roughly onefourth of these essays deals with what rushdie calls the unfunny valentine he received on february 14, 1989, from the.
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