Salman Rushdie was stabbed repeatedly at the Chautauqua Institution, in western New York. He has wounds to his neck, stomach, and liver; severed nerves in one of his arms; and, according to his literary agent, Andrew Wylie, will probably lose an eye. This singular symbol of daring artistic ambition has become, suddenly, a flesh-and-blood person in grave suffering. The Stratford Public Library is aggrieved by the assault on Salman Rushdie, an internationally celebrated author,

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