funny?

I am reading Salman Rushdie's newest novel, The Enchantress of Florence.  I have found him funny...let me repeat that:  Salman Rushdie is funny.  This is not what one thinks of an author who has been the recipient of a fatwa by the Ayatollas-that-be of the Middle East.  But he is.  

Examples from chapter one:

For vegetarians there were other, more silent cook-pots; vegetables did not scream.

Now he wanted the most comfortable bed that could be had, and a woman, preferable one without a mustache...

Much funnier than the heating-and-air conditioning technician that told me that I need a new compressor for my 8-year-old air conditioning unit.  No, he wasn't funny at all.

Comments

[tinker]

Ouch! No, I bet the repairman wasn't at all funny...