Word: typescript
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...again, Rushdie cannot go home. His north London house, guarded around the clock by uniformed police, is empty. His fourth-floor study, where he wrote The Satanic Verses at the rate of roughly 800 words a day, no longer betrays the traces of his working routine, mounting piles of typescript scattered about the floor. But on a mantelpiece in this room rests an intriguing souvenir of Rushdie's past: a beautifully bound octagonal miniature, roughly the size of a silver dollar, of the Koran...
...cancer last week. The book was an early expression of the developing racial anguish in South Africa and has become an international classic. Earlier this year, had asked him to write an essay about South Africa today. Two days after | his death, Paton's widow Anne forwarded the incomplete typescript with a note: "I am very sorry he never finished it, but it was almost done, and during the last few days before he went into the hospital he was just too tired. In any case he could not bring his mind to bear on it because of his illness...
...slight Daffy Duck lisp comes and goes, and provides an affecting touch of vulnerability. He works the audience, improvising. On some occasions he will begin slowly, reading straight from a prepared typescript. But then, eager to give his measured words emphasis, he starts his right hand stirring the air in tight counterclockwise loops. And before long, like one of his new turbocharged cars, he revs up and zooms off, quoting himself, zigzagging between '60s idiom ("flip out," "bummer") and mild profanity, tossing away irreverent asides like empty beer cans. Hyperbole comes naturally, and repeatedly: to the analysts in Detroit...
...called The Tenth Man had been unearthed from the archives of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. He remembered working under contract to MGM back in 1944 and thought he might have written a brief scenario of a story that could, conceivably, have borne that title. But when the discovered typescript was sent to him, as Greene notes in an introduction, he was astonished: "It proved to be not two pages of outline but a complete short novel of about 30,000 words. What surprised and aggravated me most of all was that I found this forgotten story very readable...
...Moscow Circles sold out fast, since it came out in only one copy." However, tongue-in-check, this statement reveals much grim truth about present official Soviet culture. Moscow Circles is a product of the samizdar (from sam--"self" and izdatel' stvo--"publishing"), whereby unpublishable novels circulate clandestinely in typescript copies. Appearing in this form in the Soviet Union in the late 1960s, it eventually made its way abroad, and became a best-seller in France and Italy...