“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”
“The fashionable world that hung on to the court with one hand, so as to avoid sinking to the level of the demi-monde”
“Closing your eyes isn’t going to change anything. Nothing’s going to disappear just because you can’t see what’s going on” ~JW poser
By chance I come to books picturing “husband being left by his wife” by two internationally acclaimed prominent authors. #man
“The game of seduction always add a little zest to life” ~Esther’s husband, a ‘free man’