Zenda Zembla Xanadu All your dream worlds may come true Fairy lands are fearsome too As I wander far from view Read and bring me home to you.
No ordinary rhyme that. What do the above lines signify?
It is an acrostic. Put together the first letter of every line and it spells ZAFAR!
Zafar is the name of Salman Rushdie's son. When he went into hiding after the Fatwa, he wrote Haroun and the Sea of Stories - A tale starring a storyteller father and his young son. A fairy tale about freedom of speech and the importance of imagination :)
The above lines are the dedication that appear at the beginning of the book.
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