“I was thinking of that line from the Bhagavad Gita: ‘Now I am become death, the destroyer of worlds.’” Watching him deliver that line, it struck me that he probably wasn’t thinking that when the bomb really went off, or he wouldn’t have needed to send me home for the book, so that he could look the line up. But that wasn’t the point. The point was that for Robert, there was no language short of myth to describe his bad situation. That was something I understood. By then, I realized, he felt he could
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