Distribution comparison, canedensis vs. glaucus

""A maharaja?" Sophie volunteered.
"Elehants, maharajas - my God, you two, is that what India is to you?" Pierre Eduard rolled his eyes. When will people from the West free themselves from Hollywood? Can you think of nothing that is not concrete, material, an entertainment?"
-Anita Desai, Journey to Ithaca, 36







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"Art cannot last in a vacuum. For books to be written, and for them to be read, we need schools. We need an enlightened state. We need institutions of learning, and we also need roads, and parks, and hospitals. What we have above is not Tory talk, contemptuous of ordinary people and their needs, but actually a discourse of thoughtfulness and concern. With this understanding, the notion of the mentor giving another person a powerful sense of literary vocation gets amplified. It touches on broader aspects of life, it spreads out, and it becomes all-encompassing. The concept is in its essence democratic and social. It seens in the provision of free milk and orange juice the promise of protected people."
-Kumar, 119













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Music

Fun^Da^Mental, Ja Sha Taan
Asian Dub Foundation, New Way New Life
Kaliphz, Vibe Da Joint
Voodoo Queens, Supermodel superficial


The singing stopped for a "Whatisit? Whathappened?" For a Furrywhirling and a Sariflapping.
-Arundhadi Roy, from The God of Small Things, p. 7








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“If I feel physically as if the top of my head were taken off, I know that is poetry.”
-Emily Dickinson
















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""Ah," Said Madame Lacan with a caustic smile that was just a twist of her grey lips. She was doing her accounts, had not removed her spectacles from her nose, and was ostentationusly keeping her pen going, dipping it into the ink well and scratching with it loudly while the cigar grew its knob of ash in a bowl nearby.

"You are not real? And I am not real? I did not realise?"

"Not in the way they are," Laila assured her, pressing on the counter with both hands in her eagerness. "We don't dress like that in Paris, or dance like that, or move or sing like that.""
-Anita Desai, Journey to Ithaca, p. 202




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"The American way of life is simply not sustainable, because it doesn't acnowledge that there is a way of life beyond America."
-Arundhati Roy




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