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The Ground Beneath Her Feet

by Salman Rushdie

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Daniel said: " this is much more than a fictive history of rock music. It's also a novel about the making and the meaning of myths. Ormus(reffering to Greek myth Orpheus) the lover of Vina(Reffering to Myth Euridice) is thrown into a coma after a car-crash in Engl this is much more than a fictive history of rock music. It's also a novel about the making and the meaning of myths. Ormus(reffering to Greek myth Orpheus) the lover of Vina(Reffering to Myth Euridice) is thrown into a coma after a car-crash in England, but is brought back from death by Vina. Vina is swallowed up by an earthquake in Mexico (on February 14, 1989 and to mention the Year of issuing "Fatwa"). while her two lovers(Ormus and Rai) struggle to bring her back through their art.

So the Orpheus and Eurydice myth gets turned around and upside down

and this is one of the most absorbing passages from the book after the earthquake which sucked up Vina:

"We have been here before.
This is a helicopter, hovering just above the broken ground. This is the woman I love, calling to me through the open door: I'm going, then. And I'm shouting back: I can't go. What? Go. Fuck you. What? Goodbye, Hope.

And this is what people are saying when they aren't saying what they mean.

she says:I'm going, then. ( but she really means :Come with me, please, I need you, I can't believe you won't come with me.)- he says: I can't go. ( and he really means:My darling, I want never to let you out of my sight again, but goddamn it, you kick me around, you know that?, do you want to see the bruises?, and just this once I'm not putting you first. I'll be there soon enough, this time you can wait for me. If you want me, you'll wait. That's right, a test. Yeah. Maybe it really is.) she says:What? (but she means :You bastard?, you think you can hold out on me? Oh Jesus, Rai, don't play games, not now, not today.) he says:Go. ( but he really means:Okay, no games. I love you forever and beyond. But this is my work. I'll be there sooner than blinking. Go. I'm right behind you. I love you. Go.)
she[Vina] says:
Fuck you ( but she really means:I never wanted you to come to Mexico in the first place, fuck you, but you came anyway, fuck you, I guess that proves something yeah but I hurt you anyway I was mad I was wrong, fuck you and then you helped me fuck you that really churned me up fuck you so I trusted you I really trusted you, fuck you, then the earth moved and you abandoned me, fuck you, you took your photographs I could have been dying I could have been broken and dying but you had your work to do, fuck you ,and now you won't come with me ,fuck you, now when I finally worked out that I need you ,fuck you, I want you, fuck you, maybe I love you ya I do love you, fuck you Rai, I love you fuck you, I do.)

Rai says: What? ( but he really means:What???)

Vina says:Goodbye, Hope. ( but she really means:Goodbye for a moment, you bastard, but after this I'm never letting you out of my sight. The next time I see you will be the beginning of the rest of our lives.)
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Every night for years, I replayed that shouted dialogue in my head, and now I think this may be what it means. Maybe Goodbye really was the never-to-be-completed beginning of Hello. I hope so, I hope so. Even though it's a meaning that makes the loss weigh more heavily than the pain ...more "

Jul 07, 2012 11:27AM · see review

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