July 2011
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The God of Small Things - Arundhati Roy
Two years later, Baby Kochamma returned from Rochester with a diploma in Ornamental Gardening, but more in love with Father Mulligan than ever. There was no trace of the slim, attractive girl that she had been. In her years at Rochester, Baby Kochamma had grown extremely large. In fact, let it be said, obese. Even timid little Chellappen Tailor at Chungam Bridge insisted on charging...
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“The party approaching were clad in such fool’s regalia and withal bore...”
– Cormac McCarthy - Blood Meridian
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“The truth about the world, he said, is that anything is possible. Had you not...”
– Cormac McCarthy - Blood Meridian
There are going to be a lot of these…
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Cormac McCarthy - Blood Meridian
The judge had taken to riding ahead with one of the Delawares and he carried his rifle loaded with the small hard seeds of the nopal fruit and in the evening he would dress expertly the colorful birds he’d shot, rubbing the skins with gunpowder and stuffing them with balls of dried grass and packing them away in his wallets. He pressed the leaves of trees and plants into his book and he...
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“Someone had reported the judge naked atop the walls, immense and pale in the...”
– Cormac McCarthy (Blood Meridian)
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