Status Updates From A Passage to India

Oh Adela…

Forester you genius

How can the mind take hold of such a country? Generations of invaders have tried, but they remain in exile. The important towns they built are only retreats, their quarrels the malaise of men who cannot find their way home. India knows of their trouble. She knows of the whole world’s trouble (…). She calls ‘Come’ through her hundred mouths (…) But come to what? (…). She is not a promise, only an appeal.