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barely cognisant of the musk of perspiration and sex that emanated from his body. He visited the bath-house only once every few weeks, when the stink from his pores became too much even for his own nostrils, but somehow his aroma often proved an intoxicating perfume.
Seriously?
‘Us?
This chapter feels quite differwnt from previous
Ha!
This speech pattern is annoying
Eskimo
Shouldn't this be Inuit?
Still, at least she hadn’t asked me to murder her new husband, which was progress of a sort.
Lol
Don’t we all hope for some form of immortality? We might not be able to breathe for ever but there are other ways to stay alive.’
places I had never been, arguing with people I had never met, odd words and scraps of strange conversations floating through my mind.
So is it supposed to be a universal story or reincarnation?
And yet they seemed more real to me than the solid world that surrounded
Okay, we get the point!
shook my head. ‘Not all men,’ I protested. ‘Not me.’
#notallmen
Love does not change, anger never varies. Hope, desperation, fear, longing, desire, lust, anxiety, confusion and joy; you and I endure these emotions just as men and women always have or ever will. We are a small people in an ever-changing universe. The world around us might be in a state of constant flux, but the universe within?’
Just in case you didn't get it yet, here is the Message
Old women of thirty lose their husbands and find themselves with no one to marry or provide for them since their beauty has faded and they look like beasts from the forest.
Wtf
a light supper of swan stuffed with pigeon stuffed with vole,
Really? We are suddenly in a farce?
‘You are savages, you see. Godless men. We have come to help you. To educate you, indoctrinate you and rule over you. Nothing more.’
This guy is the master of labouring a point
held my tongue,
What language are they speaking?
Kalawai’a.
Not even vaguely a Mäori name
Laka’sha
And again
What elaborate ceremonies and initiations did these people have to go through, I wondered, in order to mark their transition from childhood to adulthood? Her piercings were also a source of fascination. She wore hoops through her ears, another through her nose and, to my utter astonishment, another in that most private of places on her body. I had never seen or imagined such a thing before, but it excited me.
Did he actually do any research?
Which was ridiculous, as I was German, had never left my homeland, and jokes were not my speciality.
Now i will tell you things
Niko Kalawai’a,
Is this supposed to be an indigenous Australian name too now?
little,’ he replied. ‘There have been some people of late writing letters to the literary pages complaining of authors who do not share the same experiences with their characters.’
A little authorial jibe at his critics?
‘I do believe it,’ she replied. ‘Just like I believe that climate change is an invention of the liberal left and that Saddam Hussein organised the attacks on the World Trade Center. I know you refuse to accept the truth, but that’s because you’ve been brainwashed by the mainstream media and by the elite.
Labouring the point again
Instead, we are simply Beings,
But still with pronouns she/her? And fathered a child?
until all that was left of him was a charred skeleton
Wtf?
Fortunately for me, my parents were
So is this a completely differdnt character?
My son, Rick,
Didn't he say his son was Xavier?
am Spearthrower Owl, the greatest ajaw of them all, under whose eternal benevolence the world continues to thrive.
What?
