A little Indian guy being sneered at by monsters of English privilege would normally have unleashed the full weight of Anne’s loyalty to underdogs, but this time it was wiped out by Vijay’s enormous desire to be a monster of English privilege himself.
[Illustration: De Chirico, Conversation Among the Ruins, 1927]
“If some big-deal friend of theirs … was feeling sad and lonely they would fly back to England and personally mix the dry martinis and load the shotguns, but when David’s own son is feeling sad and lonely in the room next door, they fight every attempt to make him less miserable.”
[Illustration: De Chirico, Scuola di gladiatori, 1927]
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