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astrologer to offer a more favorable view, and the wedding took place. When Rajam died of typhoid five years later, in 1939, he was heartbroken and refused even to consider remarriage for the rest of his very long life. He claimed that he did not want to expose another woman to his unlucky destiny; but Narayan was not a superstitious man, and it seems probable that in reality he simply did not believe he could ever love another woman as deeply as he had Rajam. His devotion to her is movingly depicted in

step. Whatever you do, just start writing. Don’t let the empty page (what Hemingway called “the white bull”) intimidate you. Go for art later. Start with clarity. Restate the strategy and put some spin on it. Think of the strategy statement as a lump of clay. You’ve got to sculpt it into something interesting to look at. So begin by taking the strategy and saying it some other way, any way. Say it faster. Say it in English. Then in slang. Shorten it. Punch it up. Try anything that will change the

only tools I have-limited as they may be-are my own eyes and ears, my own hands, my own voice, my own mind. That's about it. I am all I have. And the thought keeps coming to me: I don't know if that's enough. When I finally crawl into bed, Julie is a lump under the sheets. She is exactly the way I left her twenty-one hours ago. She's sleeping. Lying beside her on the mattress, still unable to sleep, I stare at the dark ceiling. That's when I decide to try to find Jonah again. 28 8 Two steps