“Certain popular romances have become just long lists of shopping expeditions. Mali tells Haroun that the pollution in the ocean is become very bad. Iff explains that as the stories grow longer, they also become twisted and braided. Mali, the Floating Gardener, untwists the stories in the water. It runs across the surface of the water showing no signs of sinking. Butt tells Haroun that it is “A Floating Gardener,” and the weed transforms itself into the likeness of a person right before Haroun’s eyes. A strange looking weed comes speeding along beside their boat. Iff finds out that all units have been ordered back to base, but he did not get the message. The Twilight Strip and the invisible Chattergy’s Wall divide the two. In Chup, where Khattam-Shud resides, it is always the middle of the night. Iff tells him just what his father had told him: Khattam-Shud is “the Arch-Enemy of all Stories.the Prince of Silence and the Foe of Speech.” He adds that most of what is known about Khattam-Shud is “gossip and flim-flam, because it’s been generations since any of us went across the Twilight Strip into the Perpetual Night.” Because of Kahani’s rotation, a process generated by Guppee Eggheads, the Land of Gup is always in Endless Sunshine. Haroun tries to find out more about Khattam-Shud from Iff. Haroun and Iff the Water Genie speed along the Ocean of Stories on the back of Butt the Hoopoe.
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