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'''Salman Rushdie''' was a [[human]] celebrity. In [[2004]], he attended the opening of the [[Tomorrow Window]]s at [[Tate Modern]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Tomorrow Windows]]'')
'''Salman Rushdie''' was a [[human]] celebrity. In [[2004]], he attended the opening of the [[Tomorrow Window]]s at [[Tate Modern]]. ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|The Tomorrow Windows (novel)}})
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=== Notes ===
*Rushdie's most famous/infamous novel - The Satanic Verses - references Doctor Who (specifically the serial The Mutants).
{{Quote|It seemed to him, as he idled across the channels, that the box was full of freaks: there were mutants - 'Mutts' - on Dr Who, bizarre creatures who appeared to have been crossbred with different types of industrial machinery: forage harvesters, grabbers, donkeys, jackhammers, saws, and whose cruel priest-chieftains were called Mutilasians; children's television appeared to be exclusively populated by humanoid robots and creatures with metamorphic bodies, while the adult programmes offered a continual parade of the misshapen human by-products of the newest notions in modern medicine, and its accomplices, modern disease and war.|Rushdie's The Satanic Verses}}


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Latest revision as of 20:32, 13 April 2024

Salman Rushdie

Salman Rushdie was a human celebrity. In 2004, he attended the opening of the Tomorrow Windows at Tate Modern. (PROSE: The Tomorrow Windows [+]Loading...["The Tomorrow Windows (novel)"])

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  • Rushdie's most famous/infamous novel - The Satanic Verses - references Doctor Who (specifically the serial The Mutants).

It seemed to him, as he idled across the channels, that the box was full of freaks: there were mutants - 'Mutts' - on Dr Who, bizarre creatures who appeared to have been crossbred with different types of industrial machinery: forage harvesters, grabbers, donkeys, jackhammers, saws, and whose cruel priest-chieftains were called Mutilasians; children's television appeared to be exclusively populated by humanoid robots and creatures with metamorphic bodies, while the adult programmes offered a continual parade of the misshapen human by-products of the newest notions in modern medicine, and its accomplices, modern disease and war.Rushdie's The Satanic Verses