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Samstag, 20. Oktober 2007

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And Gibreel the archangel specified the manner in which a man should be buried, and how his property sould be divided, so that Salman the Persian got to wondering what manner of God this was that sounded so much like a businessman. This was when he had the idea that destroyed his faith, because he recalled that of course Mahound himself had been a businessman, and a damned successful one at that, a person to whom organization and rules came naturally, so how excessively convenient it was that he should have come up with such a very businesslike archangel, who handed down the management decisions of that highly corporate, if non-corporeal, God.

Salman Rushdie, The Satanic Verses (London: Vintage, 1998 [1988]), 365.

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