Haroun and the Sea of Stories

Why does Khattam-Shud insist on complete silence?

Khattam-Shud

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Khattam-Shud insists on complete silence as a means of suppressing not only speech but stories. He hopes to destroy the story and in doing so destroy the identities created by those stories--replacing them with "silence and darkness."