Rushdie vs. Joyce

How does Salmon Rushdie connect with Finnegans Wake? This is an interesting question. Although there's probably a multitude of connections which can be made, here's a few i found interesting:
- "Murder, Murder, spock obi New Year" (pg. 130 in SOS)
This reminded me of the language Joyce uses throughout his text, although in Haroun it is the language of gestures. Perhaps Joyce new of this and many of what is written in FW has to do with not only how to pronounce the words, but how you animate yourself while reading... something to try in the future

- "It's a complicated palace and we're a little lost" (pg. 107 in SOS)
This is a bit how i feel when i am reading finnegans wake, "a little lost". I think it's the sheer multitude of languages Joyce includes, how many of the words are phonetically written on the page so it helps to read out loud, and probably more so, that i really still can't quite figure out what FW is about.

-"Feeling like you's was lost in the bush" (pg. 107 in FW)
This passage pretty much summed up my feelings towards FW at the outset of the semester. Although i now know the path i am able to take to decipher its code, many times i feel myself lost in the proverbial "bush"

-"As he watched the shadow warriors martial dance, Haroun thought about this strange adventure in which he had become involved. 'How many opposites are at war in this battle between Gup and Chup!' he marvelled. 'Gup is bright and Chup is dark. Gup is warm and Chup is freezing cold. Gup is all chattering and noise, whereas Chup is silent as a shadow. Guppees love the ocean, Chupwalas try to poison it. Guppees love stories, and speech; Chupwalas, it seems, hate these things just as strongly.' It was a war between love and death." (pg. 125 in SOS)
This quote has summed of much of the class in words better than i can put down on paper. The eternal opposite, ying and yang, light and dark, love and hate. I believe, at least in my interpretation, that FW is a compliment to opposites. I haven't read Ulyssess, but isn't that the book of the day, and isn't FW the book of the night. The eternal cycle.

-"riverrun, past Eve and Adam's, from swerve of shore to bend of bay, brings us by a commodius vicus of recirculation back to Howth Castle and Environs." (pg. 1 in FW)
- "A way a lone a last a loved a long the" (pg. 628 in FW)
The eternal return