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Haroun consistently equates juggling with storytelling, as he often thinks of his father, Rashid, as juggling many different tales when he tells his famous stories. When Haroun meets Blabbermouth and sees actual juggling, and skilled juggling at that, this relationship is confirmed. Juggling, then, becomes a symbol for storytelling in both a literal and more metaphoric sense. Good storytelling, as well as good juggling, entails managing many different elements in such a way as to make them all make sense, both individually and in the context of the greater narrative. This is something that Rashid (and, it should be noted, Rushdie himself) does with his storytelling.