Ocupation: Novelist
Life: b. June 19, 1947
Birthday: June 19
The history of life was not the bumbling progress - the very English, middle-class progress - Victorian thought had wanted it to be, but violent, a thing of dramatic, cumulative transformations: in the old formulation, more revolution than evolution.
source: Salman Rushdie (1989). “The Satanic Verses”, New York, N.Y. : Viking
topic: Class, Progress, History Of Life, Cumulative