Mahound

I'm in the Mahound section of Satanic Verses, and I have to say that I'm really enjoying it. The girth of this section seems to be a dream of Gibreel's (perhaps the dream he is trying so desperately to avoid in the airplane?) about the resistance of monotheists, Mahound and his disciples, against the Grandee and his minions in a pantheistic, hedonistic Middle Eastern Las Vegas. I like the Thousand and One Nights fairytale quality of the story. It's interesting.