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Dervla Murphy

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  • Ночь нежнаhas quoted4 years ago
    So far I haven’t noticed any of the dire poverty one expects in India; but then the Punjab is the country’s most prosperous state – partly because of its natural resources and partly because Sikhs are in general more on the ball than Hindus. An FAO official I met today told me that their work in the Punjab is much more productive than elsewhere in India because of greater and more intelligent co-operation from the locals.
  • Ночь нежнаhas quoted4 years ago
    But ten years ago it would have stirred more often and more vigorously; by now it seems to me that prosperity as the West knows it today and poverty on an Eastern scale are equally harmful to the soul of Man.
  • Ночь нежнаhas quoted4 years ago
    At last the monsoon seems to be breaking here. I saw my first electric storm this evening and it was a sight of such beauty that I couldn’t take my eyes off the sky for a moment. Then the rain came so forcefully that no one who hasn’t witnessed such a spectacle could imagine it; yet they tell me that this is only a curtain-raiser, not the real thing!
  • Ночь нежнаhas quoted4 years ago
    and my hostess very firmly took my shirt and pants and put them into the incinerator; they were long past being restored to cleanliness by any means known to mankind.
  • Ночь нежнаhas quoted4 years ago
    The way was level grassland and never did I think horses could move so fast
  • Ночь нежнаhas quoted4 years ago
    goes without saying
  • Ночь нежнаhas quoted4 years ago
    I was understandably anxious to photograph Roz at this historic point where, because of her owner’s mental unsoundness, she had become the first bicycle to cross the Babusar Pass;
  • Ночь нежнаhas quoted4 years ago
    I felt the thin air today, from about 9,000 feet, and had to stop every half-mile for a few minutes to calm my heart. (I also have a theory that being undernourished does not help.) From that altitude there was a big change in scene for the pine woods begin here with gigantic trees twice the height of any other pines I’ve seen.
  • Ночь нежнаhas quoted4 years ago
    d Gilgit on the skin of an onion is the best way to shed superfluous fat.
  • Ночь нежнаhas quoted4 years ago
    It’s such a strange sensation to touch things like paper and furniture and not feel them warm to the fingers and I can hardly believe that there’s no sweat dripping off me on to everything.
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