Turning only few pages but four annotations already. Yet these had been merely digression chapters. Enjoying not to cut to the chase
I wouldn’ think nuff’n; I’d take en bust him over de head — dat is, if he warn’t white ~Jim replied
S’pose a man was to come to you & say Polly-voo-franzy — what do you think? ~Huck asked Jim
“..and one has to wander through all the outer worlds to reach the innermost shrine in the end” ~from Gitanjali, Tagore
“The traveler has to knock at every alien door to come to his own…”
… four letters: an alif, two lams, and a ha. #Pi
#Pi first clue was that atheists were his brothers & sisters of a different faith (when later on he meant agnostics)
The unbearable cruelty of children falsely pronouncing “Piscine” (supposedly French) led #Pi to flight for his own Hijra as “π Patel”
“… light but unmistakable, like a trace of incense in the air.”
“… speaking French to avoid using the stiff Russian plural form, so impossibly frigid between them, & the dangerously intimate singular”