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“…sometimes the way is very wiggly and strange.” -Turnip (thanks for the reminder, Turnip)

pg. 46 "...it was just public opinion in an acute state of indigestion..."

pg.56 "...at least that vanity which at times can assume the office of pride and fortitude..."

Faulkner is certainly one to spend considerable time with before the lengthy run-on sentences begin to take on more structure and meaning. In a sense not too different from the act of getting to know someone through speaking.

pg. 276 "...maybe what happens to you as a child determines everything about you... somehow, even the things that happen to you."

pg. 297 "And if she could turn the situation into colour, she'd overwhelm me, she'd overwhelm me with rust and verdigris and some such rainbow."

pg. 324 "He is being brotherly, friendly, almost fatherly...denying her difference is ruinously odd."

"One more variety in varied humanity"

A return to New Zealand

My once monolithic perception of the Malay ethnicity is now a dizzying array of migrations encompassing much of the Indonesian archipelago, religious persecutions (the Padri war and Minangkabau egress of Sumatra), and assimilation of, to name a few: Bugis, Minangkabau, Javanese, Acehnese, Sunda, Riau, that are now considered Malay.