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Nearly Sane

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Re: V S Naipaul dead
« Reply #1 on: August 12, 2018, 12:50:31 AM »
Never read any of his works - but he had a way with words:

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In England people are very proud of being very stupid.
If a man lies with a male as with a woman, both of them have committed an abomination; they shall surely be put to death; their blood is upon them. - God is Love.

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Re: V S Naipaul dead
« Reply #2 on: August 12, 2018, 10:56:04 PM »
Never read any of his works - but he had a way with words:
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In England people are very proud of being very stupid.

As demonstrated by Boris Johnson.
True Wit is Nature to Advantage drest,
          What oft was Thought, but ne’er so well Exprest

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Re: V S Naipaul dead
« Reply #3 on: August 13, 2018, 04:54:43 PM »
Hugely interesting writer.


https://www.theguardian.com/books/2018/aug/11/vs-naipaul-british-author-dies-aged-85?CMP=twt_gu

Read two of his books on India - very perceptive, and very critical. Perhaps unjustly so.
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