![]() ![]() It was a skyblue day in 1969 when Rahel found herself in a fictive time-slip. Yes, it had all begun with Sophie Mol in the days before the Love Laws were rewritten. A river swollen, engorged with meaningless imagery. A river with a rushing, rolling, fishswimming sense. But these too are Small Things.Įven before Sophie Mol's funeral, the police found Velutha by the river. But these are Small Things.Īnd that was before they were nearly born on a bus, before Ammu and her father were divorced, before Ammu died at 31, a dieable viable age, before the unthinkable became thinkable and Sophie Mol died at seven, a dieable, non viable age, before Estha was Returned, before she had gone to Canada to get married, before she had got divorced. ![]() She remembers what the Orangedrink Lemondrink Man did to Estha even though he never actually told her what happened. ![]() A space when Life was full of Beginnings and no Ends, before Edges, Borders and Capital Letters began to appear. Her mind inevitably goes back to a deeper, more secret poetic space. ![]()
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