My unconscious rewrites history

[come_to_think]

It is not just movies (http://come-to-think.livejournal.com/5669.html) that engage my confabulation mechanism.  Casual researches have revealed that I was harboring utterly false versions of recent history:

Musical chairs in San Francisco: Harvey Milk was the mayor.  Dan White, the

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[muckefuck]

Not one of his, at any rate. Rushdie's a Bombay-born Kashimiri. He doesn't know any Arabic (beyond the very basics that any Muslim learns) and does all his writing in English.

[come_to_think]

I did not actually find that out on Wikipedia, but guessed something of the sort must be true, once I thought of it. It is an unlikely story about *any* book, but it was congenial to me in that it confirmed the terrific importance of English in our era.

I wonder if I *dreamed* the magazine article. I have occasionally remembered something and then concluded that it was a dream after noticing some inconsistency with reality, and in this case I might never have noticed a conflict blatant enough to tip me off. However, I would have had to dream up all those details!