Showing posts with label The Siege of Krishnapur. Show all posts
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Tuesday, October 30, 2018

Daily Dose

From The Siege of Krishnapur, by J. G. Farrell

SOMETIMES

"Sometimes, when you try to peer too intensely into the gloom, your eyes make you see things which do not exist..."

From Chapter 10

Monday, July 21, 2014

Daily Dose

From The Siege of Krishnapur, by J. G. Farrell

THE COLLECTOR

"The Collector was surprised to find himself responding to a poem composed by one of the ladies; hitherto he had considered the poems of value only for their therapeutic properties."

From Part One, Chapter 1

Friday, April 6, 2012

Daily Dose

From The Siege of Krishnapur, by J. G. Farrell

BRICKS

"Bricks are undoubtedly an essential ingredient of civilizations; one gets nowhere at all without them."

From Part One, Chapter 1