When Worlds Collide
I’ve finally drummed up another quote, since I haven’t finished another book yet, and thus cannot offer another review.
This one comes from A Passage to India which I am currently reading with my senior classes. The setting is a town in India during that country’s colonial period. Forster goes to great lengths to establish the very separate spheres enhabited by the local Indial population and the non-native English population, and describes at length a social engagement during which the two societies were expected to comingle. In the midst of the awkward silence…
“Some kites hovered overhead, impartial, over the kites passed the mass of a vulture, and with an impartiality exceeding all, the sky, not deeply coloured but translucent, poured light from its whole circumference. It seemed unlikely that the series stopped here. Beyond the sky must not there be something that overarches all the skies, more impartial even than they? Beyond which again…”
May 3, 2007
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