Chamcha's

"Her skin turned to glass," the manticore explained impatiently, not knowing that he was bringing Chamcha's worst dream to life.

The Satanic Verses Rushdie, Salman 1967

To which Chamcha's sense of balance, his much-to-be-said-forand-against reflex, wished to add: "And why angels, when man is angelic too?"

The Satanic Verses Rushdie, Salman 1967

He asked her one night if she had seen the horns growing on Chamcha's head, but she went deaf and, instead of answering, told him how she would sit on a camp stool by the galp-n or bull-pen at Los Alamos and the prize bulls would come up and lay their horned heads in her lap.

The Satanic Verses Rushdie, Salman 1967

For which they must not be blamed; Chamcha's antics were sufficient to have distracted the keenest eyes.

The Satanic Verses Rushdie, Salman 1967

A scream, that same scream that had fluttered in his guts when Gibreel swam across the sky, burst from Chamcha's lips; a shaft of sunlight pierced his open mouth and set it free.

The Satanic Verses Rushdie, Salman 1967

Mishal had developed the habit of talking about the Street as if it were a mythological battleground and she, on high at Chamcha's attic window, the recording angel and the exterminator, too.

The Satanic Verses Rushdie, Salman 1967

Farishta in his exhaustion-beyond-exhaustion would lose control and place his sobbing head on Chamcha's shoulder, while Saladin -- prolonged captivity erodes certain reluctances among the captives -- would stroke his face and kiss the top of his head, _There, there, there_.

The Satanic Verses Rushdie, Salman 1967

No point, one small part of Chamcha's consciousness agreed.

The Satanic Verses Rushdie, Salman 1967

Rosa couldn't see, in that laughter-heaving surge of men and dogs, what uniformed arms might be doing to Chamcha's arms, or fists to his stomach, or boots to his shins; nor could she be sure if it was his voice crying out or just the howling of the dogs.

The Satanic Verses Rushdie, Salman 1967

Mishal, Hanif Johnson and Pinkwalla -- in whose eyes Chamcha's metamorphoses had made the actor a hero, through whom the magic of special-effects fantasy-movies

The Satanic Verses Rushdie, Salman 1967