这一章写的是Brass Monkey，后来叫Jamila Singer了——真的是呢，我在生活中知道的很多小时候顽劣的女孩子几乎无一例外长大都清秀得不得了，虽不矢口否认，但也绝不提小时候的假小子时光。
这一章里，Rushdie写到了Saleem十六岁的时候沉迷的一个whore，而且是whore of whores. Rushdie的鬼脑子用到了嗅觉上，这是妓女 Tai Bibi，可以随客人需要而改变体味！而我们的男主Saleem有着遗传的大鼻子，两页前还详细写了由于他灵敏的鼻子，把味道按颜色、重量、几何图像、甚至价值观来归类。在这种前提下，出现一个变色龙般调制气味的女人供品鉴，实在是太妙不可言。
然而没有，没有任何露骨的描写，甚至感官描写，后来你会发现，这个Tai Bibi的出现恐怕只是一个情节的引子，通过她告知读者主角的心事，鬼迷心窍。明明可以声色撩人的地方，Rushdie构建着更复杂的迷宫。即便是在叙述中转换人称，也用oho这种语气词提醒。或者是那个万年的听众，Padma，一遍遍地在括号中大呼小叫……所以阅读这部庞杂得显得笨重的小说，你不会枯燥，但要集中精力。
What finally made Tai Bibi irresistible? What gift of control did she possess which put other whores to shame? What maddened the newly-sensitized nostrils of our Saleem?Padma: my ancient prostitute possessed a mastery over her glands so total that she could alter her bodily odours to match those of anyone on earth. Eccrines and apocrines obeyed the instructions of her antiquated will; and although she said, ' Don't expect me to do it standing up; you couldn't pay enough for that,' her gifts of perfume were more than he could bear.
(... 'Chhi-chhi,' Padma covers her ears,' My God, such a dirty-filthy man, I never knew!'...)
... he began to describe odours with all the perspicacity of his miraculous nose, and Tai Bibi began to imitate his descriptions, leaving him aghast as by trial-and-error she succeeded in reproducing the body odours of his mother his aunts, oho you like that do you little sahibzada, go on, stick your nose as close as you like, you're a funny fellow for sure ... until suddenly, by accident, yes, I swear I didn't make her do it, suddenly during trial-and-error the most unspeakable fragrance on earth wafts out of the cracked wrinkled leather-ancient body, and now he can't hide what she sees, oho, little sahibzada, what have I jit on now, you don't have to tell who she is but this one is the one for sure.引自 Jamila Singer
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