16 quotes
Love seems inevitable, necessary, as normal and as easy a process as respiration.
The Right to an Answer (1960)
‘You are admitting, then, to frivolity of attitude to important global problems?’
The Right to an Answer (1960)
'They say the church spire interferes with their bloody television reception.'
The Right to an Answer (1960)
The dog now slept, occasionally farting very gently.
The Right to an Answer (1960)
Well-fed and liquored, I responded with ardour.
The Right to an Answer (1960)
‘…Your little feuilleton…recording…my crude nabob’s philistinism…’
The Right to an Answer (1960)
That night we visited various places where well-shaped and scented, though completely naked, Japanese girls came to sit on male knees.
The Right to an Answer (1960)
The dog looked up through its hairy yashmak and farted.
The Right to an Answer (1960)
As I walked towards travel, that illusion of liberation, I strangely felt myself walking back into childhood.
The Right to an Answer (1960)
I know little about the women of my own race...
The Right to an Answer (1960)
I was only the returned Oriental eccentric, drunk at that…
The Right to an Answer (1960)
…of course, keep-fit people are no good in bed…
The Right to an Answer (1960)
Mr Raj had been purely Orientally and fancifully complimentary (‘So great a man, his lingam as long and thick as a tree, the father of whole villages’).
The Right to an Answer (1960)
I watched the grey villages limp by, the wind tearing at torn posters of long-done events. What I needed, of course, was a drink.
The Right to an Answer (1960)
…jumped-up commercials pretending, too late, to be the ruling class..
The Right to an Answer (1960)
Singapura means lion-city; prehistoric, myopic, Sanskrit-speaking visitors having spotted a mangy tiger or two in the mangroves. Sly Malays sometimes call it Singa pura-pura, which means ‘pretending to be a lion’….It is a profoundly provincial town pretending to be a metropolis.
The Right to an Answer (1960)