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12 hours ago · Salman Rushdie often writes about s**t. In Midnight’s Children’s final pages, he almost invites an open-air defecator into the novel.Rushdie’s book is an end-times parable about India (“sucked into the annihilating whirlpool of the multitudes”, reads its final line) and the narrator can’t help but find every little detail significant.
12 hours ago · The name Gabriel ( Hebrew: גַּבְרִיאֵל, Gaḇrīʾēl) is composed of the first person singular possessive form of the Hebrew noun gever (גֶּבֶר), meaning "man", and ʾĒl, meaning "God". This would make the translation of the archangel's name "man of God" [9] [10] [11] or "power of God". In Arabic, Jibrīl (جبريل), means ...
- Carrying a lily, a trumpet, a shining lantern, a branch from Paradise, a scroll, and a scepter.
