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[In]the too solid three-dimensional city, I could never feel myself as anything but spectral, disintegrating, pointless, fluid.


V.S. Naipaul

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V. S. NAIPAUL This is unusual for me. I have given readings and not lectures. I have told people who ask for lectu...
V. S. NAIPAUL I had no student friends to talk to about literature. My tutor was a really nice man, very charming ...
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