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begun that very night. In these visions he was always present, not as himself but as his namesake, and I don't mean interpreting a role, Spoono, I am him, he is me, I am the bloody archangel, Gibreel himself, large as
_Spoono_. Like Zeenat Vakil, Gibreel had reacted with mirth to Saladin's abbreviated name. "Bhai, wow. I'm tickled, truly. Tickled pink. So if you are an English chamcha these days, let it be. Mr. Sally Spoon. It will be our little joke." Gibreel Farishta had a way of failing to notice when he made people angry. _Spoon, Spoono, my old Chumch_: Saladin hated them all. But could do nothing. Except hate.
Maybe it was because of the nicknames, maybe not, but Saladin .found Gibreel's revelations pathetic, anticlimactic, what was so strange if his dreams characterized him as the angel, dreams do every damn thing, did it really display more than a banal kind of egomania? But Gibreel was sweating from fear: "Point is, Spoono," he pleaded, "every time I go to sleep the
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