In Joseph Anton, however, Rushdie continues to reveal an unwillingness or inability to grasp them, or to abandon the conceit, useful in fiction but misleading outside it, that the personal is the geopolitical.
Some, he writes, "had been detained by their precious china, or inability to sell their Bösendorfer concert grand piano, or unwillingness to abandon the park view from their windows".
And in many instances, the effect of the patients' rights movement has been to abandon to illnesses people whose symptoms include an inability to make sound choices.
Unpalatability and the inability to use it for cooking purposes may have driven people to abandon these wells.
But despite his inability to make out more than vague shapes and colours, he refused to abandon his love of photography - and instead has learnt to adapt his technique.
But what happens when the inability to finish a work of art becomes overwhelming, and the artist is forced to abandon the entire ascent a mere stone's throw from the summit?
He appeared to abandon colour.
We have to abandon discarding".
It seems safe to abandon this conjecture.
Is it time to abandon ship?
