What grows best in the heat: fantasy; unreason; lust. ✨ Salman Rushdie…

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What grows best in the heat: fantasy; unreason; lust. ✨ Salman Rushdie (2010). Midnight's Children, p.231, Random House
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What grows best in the heat: fantasy; unreason; lust. ✨ Salman Rushdie (2010). Midnight's Children, p.231, Random House

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