While Ormus and Vina chatted to the jazzmen, their hands and bodies were talking to each other. Ormus and Vina were deep in conversation with the musicians, who were packing up their instruments and shouting at the local stagehands to watch what they were doing.
"The concert was over, the crowd was drifting away, but I stood rooted to the spot, taking photographs. "Between the self and the other, between the visionary and the psychopath, between the lover and his love, between the overworld and the underworld, falls the shadow.". Source: Chapter 2, "Melodies and Silences". "The only people who see the whole picture are the ones who step out of the frame.". The myth works as a red thread from which the author sometimes strays, but to which he attaches an endless series of references. Published in 1999, it is a variation on the Orpheus/Eurydice myth with rock music replacing Orpheus' lyre. Is it just me or does any one else know about the alternative closing lines of the song: 'She was my country road/ My city street/ My sky above/ My only Love/ And the ground beneath my feet' ?The Ground Beneath Her Feet, a 1999 book by Salman Rushdie, is his sixth novel. Of course the U2 song takes on its own identity, especially being on the OST for 'The Million Dollar Hotel' but I personally always see this song as out of the novel. Whilst reading 'TGBHF' I was struck with the post-modern continuity of Rushdie's world having read his 2nd novel 'Midnight's Children' and have once again been hit with the continuity stick as I am reading 'The Satanic Verses' at present. The woman does actually get swallowed by an earthquake! 
The song is sung by the 'hero' of the novel Ormus Cama in a beautiful passage towards the novel's end. I will not ruin the story because it is so moving in so many ways.
The novel is narrated by the third wheel who is a photographer.
The facts: 'The Ground Beneath Her Feet' is also the name of Rushdie's 1999 novel in which there is a love triangle. The lyrics are by Salman Rushdie, whether there is a Ismlamic subtext is contentious and an interesting reading so I am not outwardly dismissing it. Check it out this is my first contribution! The last 3 postings are all slightly correct.
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