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A mechanical Hoopoe bird that communicates telepathically without moving its beak. As a machine, Butt is highly logical, but also has a flair for the dramatic and has temperamental outbursts at times. According to Iff, the Hoopoe bird is the bird that in old stories leads all the other birds through danger to their goal, and in Haroun's story, Butt is instrumental in the defeat of Khattam-Shud's shadow. Butt the Hoopoe corresponds to Mr. Butt in Alfibay.
Butt Quotes in Haroun and the Sea of Stories
The Haroun and the Sea of Stories quotes below are all either spoken by Butt or refer to Butt. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
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Chapter 4
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To give a thing a name, a label, a handle; to rescue it from anonymity, to pluck it out of the Place of Namelessness, in short to identify it—well, that's a way of bringing the said thing into being. Or, in this case, the said bird or Imaginary Flying Organism.
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Chapter 5
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"A strange sort of Story Moon our Kahani would be, if storybook things weren't everywhere to be found." And Haroun had to admit that that was a reasonable remark.
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Chapter 7
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"But but but what is the point of giving persons Freedom of Speech," declaimed Butt the Hoopoe, "if you then say they must not utilize the same? And is not the Power of Speech the greatest Power of all? Then surely it must be exercised to the full?"
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Chapter 8
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"Never thought it'd be so bad!"
"We have failed you! We feel sad!"
"I feel terrible! She feels worse!"
"We can hardly speak in verse."
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