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Part 1 - Toronto and Pondicherry

Chapter 7

“It was my luck to have a few good teachers in my youth, men and women who came into my dark head and lit a match”(25).

Part 1 - Toronto and Pondicherry

Chapter 5

“It is true that those we meet can change us, sometimes so profoundly that we are not the same afterwards, even unto our names”(20).

Part 1 - Toronto and Pondicherry

Chapter 4

“I spent more hours than I can count a quiet witness to the highly mannered, manifold expressions of life that grace our planet”(15).

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Chapter 3

“The day I came of swimming age, which, to Mother’s distress, Mamaji claimed was seven, he brought me down to the beach, spread his arms seaward and said, ‘This is my gift to you.’

‘And then he nearly drowned you,’ claimed Mother”(9).

Part 1 - Toronto & Pondicherry

Chapter 1

“I still see him in my dreams. They are nightmares mostly, but nightmares tinged with love. Such is the strangeness of the human heart”(6).

Part 3 - The Peacekeeper

“Only he’s got a different set of rules for him than me. Like always. What makes him a victim makes me trash”(393).

“He waded out, and the cold water embraced him, clearing the cobwebs from his head…”(433)