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although oblivious to their needs. Chapter 2 resumes the story of his childhood. His father’s complaint that mission teachers insult Hindu gods recalls Narayan’s own boyhood experience as retold in Swami and Friends, but it is almost dismissed as a joke here. Recent stories of attacks on Christian missionaries by fanatical Hindu nationalists may mislead some readers into exaggerating the antipathy between these two religions in India. For most of the second half of the twentieth century, Hindu parents

have a falling out, Then one day I saw myself again in the mirror, And remembered I also had many dreams when I was young, Also dreamed to be like them / To let myself shine, I don’t know whether I was born at the wrong time / Or if fate is just a joke, I almost became the slave of money/ Life almost became the definition of shit, “Don’t bother me! I feel vexed!” is the most fashionable slogan at present, From this point we can see / Seems many people have lost their way, Who…can…give me some

language accessible, one day or another, to every shade of meaning. I reserved to myself the right of translation ^ Here is the famous sonnet, which must be taken, as it was meant, without undue seriousness, and yet as something more than a mere joke. VOYELLES rouge, vert, bleu, voyelles, Je dirai quelque jour vos naissanoes latentes. A, noir corset velu des mouches ^olatantes Qui bombillent autour des puanteurs oruelles, I A noir, E blano, U Golfe d'ombre E, candeur des vapeurs

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Honey is as clever as Tom. They share the same views on politics, and are both afraid that the Republican Party could win the elections. But Honey wants to vote for Nader and Tom for Gore. Finally Honey brings the conversation to an end with a witty joke, and Nathan hopes it could change Tom’s look on her. The next morning, Nathan learns that Al Junior hasn’t found what happened to the car but he realizes he doesn’t care. He feels good and doesn’t want to go back to New York so soon. He tries to speak

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attitude towards Seeger? severe fed up avuncular (= like an uncle) at ease suspicious Which of the following describe(s) Seeger’s attitude towards Jackson? a. He’s in awe of him. b. He distrusts him. c. He feels comfortable with him. d. He finds him a joke. e. He despises him. Find two things Jackson says to Seeger which suggest the two men do not share the same sense of humour. ................................................................................................. ....................

has seen investments in the software industry double in the past year. But how is a country in which only 0.5 percent of the population has a PC, and less than three percent have phones, and where six-hour power cuts are commonplace, leapfrog? The joke is that 95 percent of Indians are waiting for phones, the other five percent are waiting fordial tones. All of South Asia is struggling to solve infrastructure bottlenecks, but it is a question of priorities. What is more important at the present time:

Although there can be important gains, the most troubling feature of aging has to do with the physical, social, and psychological losses and deficits it commonly brings, as well as our increasing nearness to death. And this gets us to the classic sardonic joke of the elderly, which goes something like this: “They say these are the golden years. To believe this, all we have to do is consider the alternative.” We all need to be concerned today about the elderly and those just getting there, because demographers

cripple, in whose hunger none will believe until he dies of it.… Like these are the most taking of the country stories, which almost persuade us to unsay the charge we have brought against their author, of hatred of the human race. That he loves a joke is much in his favour; and we allow that his laugh has an infectious ring about it which ought to scatter some of our dislike for the self-conscious misanthrope. Moments there are when we acknowledge that Maupassant, like all who have mixed with high