"How will the ships navigate without stars? And……" — Jeet Thayil
"How will the ships navigate without stars? And then he remembered that the stars were dead, long dead, and the light they shed was not to be trusted, was false, if not an outright lie, and in any case was inadequate, unequal to its task, which was to illuminate the evil that men did."
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All I did was write it down, one word after the other, beginning and ending with the same one, Bombay.
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Come on, a 25-page digression on god? You can’t have that kind of thing, cut it out!”
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My religion is no way of knowing me.
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Drugs are a bad habit, so why do it? Because, said Dimple, it isn't the heroin that we're addicted to,…
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Then there are the addicts, the hunger addicts, the rage addicts, the poverty addicts , and power addicts, and the…
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Because now there's time enough not to hurry, to light the lamp and open the window to the moon and…
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We're waiting for a glance or a word, some acknowledgement that we are here.
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I found Bombay and opium, the drug and the city, the city of opium and the drug Bombay
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