Rushdie on his reflection in the mirror

Rushdie on his reflection in the mirror – CBS News Watch CBS News “The lips of the man in the mirror do not move. There is a slash across the top of his forehead,” Salman Rushdie writes in his book “Knife.”

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Rushdie: "He was just stabbing wildly"

“There was the knife in the eye. That was the cruellest blow, and it was a deep wound. The blade went in all the way to the optic nerve, which meant there would be no possibility of saving the vision. It was gone,” says Salman Rushdie.