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12 NOV 18 :: A New King for the Congo V.S. Naipaul @nybooks |
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7 NOV 18 :: M.G. Vassanji travels back to Tanzania |
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8 OCT 18 :: A New King for the Congo V.S. Naipaul @nybooks |
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2 OCT 18 :: "Look, boys, it ever strike you that the world not real at all? It ever strike you that we have the only mind in the world and you just thinking up everything else?"- V.S. Naipaul, Miguel Street |
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20 SEP 18 :: K. Frimpong & His Cubano Fiestas - s/t (Ghana, 1977, FULL ALBUM) (Afro-Cuban, Afrobeat, Highlife) |
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22 AUG 18 :: "I wish my prose to be transparent - I don't want the reader to stumble over me; I want him to look through what I'm saying to what I'm describing." V. S. Naipaul, |
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16 AUG 18 :: "The world is what it is; men who are nothing, who allow themselves to become nothing, have no place in it." - V.S. Naipaul, A Bend in the River |
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16 AUG 18 :: Reading Naipaul in Africa @NewYorker |
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16 AUG 18 :: "Going home at night! It wasn't often that I was on the river at night. I never liked it. I never felt in control. V.S. Naipaul, A Bend in the River |
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16 AUG 18 :: The river and the forest were like presences, and much more powerful than you. You felt unprotected, an intruder ... You felt the land taking you back to something that was familiar V.S. Naipaul, A Bend in the River |
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16 AUG 18 :: 'You can always get into those places. What is hard is to get out. That is a private fight. Everybody has to find his own way." - V.S. Naipaul, A Bend in the River |
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16 AUG 18 :: And even on a moonlight night you couldn't see much. When you made a noise - dipped a paddle in the water - you heard yourself as though you were another person. - V.S. Naipaul |
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13 AUG 18 :: V S Naipaul "In our blood and bone and brain we carry the memories of thousands of beings." |
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13 AUG 18 :: V. S. Naipaul (1932-2018): 'My endeavour in writing has always been to discover and discover anew, to see the world and put together the words that reflect it' @TheTLS |
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13 AUG 18 :: "The only lies for which we are truly punished are those we tell ourselves."-- V.S. Naipaul, In a Free State |
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13 AUG 18 :: "Anybody can be decisive during a panic; it takes a strong man to act during a boom." - V.S. Naipaul |
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24 APR 18 :: - V.S. Naipaul, A Bend in the River |
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23 APR 18 :: The Pivot towards the Commonwealth #CHOGM2018 |
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20 FEB 18 :: The Heart of Conrad Colm Toibin @nybooks |
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31 OCT 17 :: You are valuable and irreplaceable. If you are ever told otherwise, do not believe it. @thereaIbanksy |
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