A family row ensued. Rushdiefilsdid not deny that Sinai was based on his father—"In my young, pissed-off way," he would later tellThe Paris Review, "I responded that I'd left all the nasty stuff out"—but he objected to his father's wounded reaction and thought it revealed a crude understanding of how novels worked. "My father had studied literature at Cambridge so I expected him to have a sophisticated response to the book, but the person who did was my mother…. She understood it at once as fiction."
Hapa kila mtu anaweza kulijibu swali hili kulingana na utashi wake na uelewaalionao katika fani hii, kutokana na aliyoyaona na kuyasikia kuhusu muziki.Ikumbukwe kwamba,"sikio" ni kiungo muhimu katika mwili kinachoupokea mdundowa ngoma kwa namna ya kipekee, na kumfanya mlengwa aanze kutikisa viungovya mwili wake wakati mwingine pasipo mwenyewe kujijua.