Immortality and the study of Grimus

"After drinking an elixir that bestows immortality upon him, a young Indian named Flapping Eagle spends the next seven hundred years sailing the seas with the blessing, and ultimately the burden, of living forever. Eventually, he grows weary of the sameness of life and journeys to the mountainous Calf Island to regain his mortality. There he meets other immortals obsessed with their own stasis, and he sets out to scale the island's peak, from which …

…Calf Mountain was slowly unmaking itself, its molecules and atoms breaking, dissolving, and quietly vanishing into primal unmade energy. The raw material of being was claiming its own" (Rushdie, 319). Grimus, who was the grand architect of the Calf Island, was eventually killed by the immortal towns-folks. Flapping Eagle, I think, eventually destroyed Calf Island by destroying the machine, which created it. Works Cited Salman Rushdie; Grimus; Modern Library Paperback Edition; Copyright 1975 Bible 2004 www.bible.com