V.S. Naipaul on the Arab Spring, Authors He Loathes, and the Books He Will Never Write
“Oh God, everybody hates Jane Austen. They don’t have the balls to say it.”
“Oh God, everybody hates Jane Austen. They don’t have the balls to say it.”
Isaac Chotiner The New Republic Dec 2012 15min Permalink
An Indian woman is torn between Hinduism and Christianity.
"We were all somewhat worried by this, but Gold Teeth's religious nature was well known to us, her husband was a learned pundit and when all was said and done this was an emergency, a matter of life and death. So we could do nothing but look on. Incense and camphor and ghee burned now before the likenesses of Krishna and Shiva as well as Mary and Jesus. Gold Teeth revealed an appetite for prayer that equalled her husband's for food, and we marvelled at both, if only because neither prayer nor food seemed to be of any use to Ramprasad."
V.S. Naipaul The Paris Review Jan 1958 10min Permalink