"An iceberg is water striving to be land; a mountain, especially a Himalaya, especially Everest, is land's attempt to metamorphose into sky; it is grounded flight, the earth mutated - nearly - into air, and become, in the true sense, exalted."

now, isn't that beautiful? for all the Rushdie critics out there (especially those who haven't read much Rushdie) from 'The Satanic Verses'. he sure knows how to tell a story, a winding long magical one, keeping you involved and intertwined in it.