Right before uttering this phrase, which is accompanied by “one easy wink of the world’s blind eye,” one character observes a woman’s “glittering helmet of hair” “shine like a gold coin in the gutter.” For 10 points each:
[10h] Give this two-word phrase uttered at the end of a short story by an IRA militant who pretends to be the boilerman Mr. Duggan.
ANSWER: “Fucking rejoice.” [accept censored answers]
[10m] The words “Fucking rejoice” end this author’s controversial story “The Assassination of Margaret Thatcher.”
ANSWER: Hilary Mantel [or Hilary Mary Mantel]
[10e] In this novel, Hal Valance refers to Margaret Thatcher as “Mrs. Torture.” At the beginning of this novel, Saladin Chamcha and Gibreel Farishta are miraculously saved after falling out of a hijacked airplane.
ANSWER: The Satanic Verses (by Salman Rushdie)
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