Rushdie 's politics , his particularity of place , ethnicity , race , his evocation of the frightening "Other reader " do not come exclusive of aesthetic technique . Nor is that aesthetic merely a matter of ornamental decoration . Rushdie 's text makes enormous claims to the experience and the discourse of the aesthetic , in to claim its power and its moral force for itself . Rushdie 's text , no less than Seth 's , sets out to give pleasure . But the nature of those pleasures are different...











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