Salman Rushdie och Super Mario

I ett sånt där trevligt "världar kolliderar"-ögonblick kan vi berätta att författaren Salman Rushdie tydligen var ett stort fan av Super Mario World, Super Nintendo-klassikern från 1992. Detta enligt The Millions, som läst nya självbiografin Joseph Anton.

Under den tid Rushdie var jagad och hotad till livet, efter det kontroversiella verket The Satanic Verses publicerats, ägnade han tiden åt att bekanta sig med Yoshi och rädda prinsessan Peach.

Här kommer ett utdrag ur självbiografin, för övrigt skriven i tredjeperson:

"Marianne came around and scolded him for playing video games. Thanks to Zafar, he had grown fond of Mario the plumber and his brother Luigi and sometimes Super Mario World felt like a happy alternative to the one he lived in the rest of the time. 'Read a good book,' his wife told him scornfully. 'Give it up.' He lost his temper. 'Don't tell me how to live my life,' he exploded, and she made a grand exit."

"Alone at Hermitage Lane he reached the end of his Super Mario game, defeating the big bad Bowser himself and rescuing the insufferably pink Princess Toadstool. He was glad Marianne was not there to witness his triumph."