Rushdie Praises Urban Grime, Tired Princeton Students Remain Awake
Via the Literary Saloon, I read this article in the Daily Princetonian about Salman Rushdie's recent visit there.
Hard not to agree.
"I almost have an ideology of dirt," he said. "Whenever anybody wants to 'clean things up' -- ethnic cleansing, for example -- people start dying. What we need is a little dirt. Cities are more dirty, and therefore more democratic and freer."
Hard not to agree.
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