Get Well Soon, Salman

[Mark Kohut]

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"A poet's work . . . to name the unnamable, to point at frauds, to take
sides, start arguments, shape the world and stop it from going to sleep"
Salman Rushdie

On Sat, Aug 13, 2022 at 4:29 PM Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:

> We know Pynchon met with him, even had a meal, right? Some kind of pen pal
> friends, maybe?
>
> An anecdote that keeps coming back to me as I cannot help but turn my mind
> to him as I otherwise live my privileged life. He and a
> band of writers, the word-soaked, erudite kind, like Burgess, maybe
> McEwan, can't remember more, used to hang out and play
> a word game they made up........
>
> Retitle a classic as if rewritten by a famous bestselling genre writer.
> Salman was the quickest and best at this.
>
> Examples were given but the only one I can remember is that Salman almost
> instantly answered
> to "Hamlet by Robert Ludlum"
>
> The Elsinore Connection.
>
> There are all kinds of skills of genius.
>