Michael rUSHdie---------

The passage beginning on page 411 starting with "futility of statistics" captures my attention in the way the narration of a tv show or a movie might. maybe a documentary, where the narrator insists that no words can describe the number in the migration to india. The rhythm is maintains a sort of domino effect in which with a list of a question  effectively being answered one after the other. Saleem speaks in a sort of thrid person when mention the buddha man-dog beast, my favorite line is "the buddha was not the only one who did what he was told" because i would consider the buddha to be one who does the opposite which i feel points out the humourous contradiction of calling himself the buddha in the section, it shows the absurd and  holy as rushdie does throught most of the novel.