An iceberg is water striving to be land; a mountain, especially a Hima…

Salman Rushdie
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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 in flight, the earth mutated--nearly--into air, and become, in the true sense, exalted. Long before she ever encountered the mountain, Allie was aware of its brooding presence in her soul. ✨ Salman Rushdie (1989). The Satanic Verses, New York, N.Y. : Viking
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