Haroun and Emergent Lit

Haroun and the Sea of Stories, no doubt has a kind of children's book feel to it with all its fantasy elements and wild imaginative characters and situations. I feel it has much to do with our class. First, its a story about stories much like Finnegans Wake, it tries to tell the readers where stories come from and how they are made. On page 73 Rushdie writes, "What Haroun was experiencing, though he didn't know it was Princess Rescue Story Number S/1001/ZHT/420/41(r)xi;" I think Rushdie was hitting on something important here the question of how many stories can really exist in the world. It can't be infinite, right, at some point all stories will meld and mix together. I think in this light we need to change how we view stories. We need to understand that it all exists already, we just need to give the world our own little twist. As far as the first theme of the class is concerned Haroun in a sense never really returns to his world because one could say he never really left. He projects elements and characters of his life into what he experiences with the water genie. This to me means that as we go about our lives we never really experience new things we merely learn new way to experience them. This is to say everything should already be familiar to us in a sense and we simply need to find new ways to make this life and this world exciting.