Gracie’s Reviews > A Passage to India > Status Update

Taking off his spectacles, as was his habit before enunciating general truth, he looked into them sadly, and remarked that the darker races are physically attracted by the fairer, but not vice versa-not a matter for bitterness this, not a matter for abuse, but just a fact which any scientific observer will confirm.
"Even when the lady is so
uglier than the
gentleman?"


I audibly gasped 😱.

I’m finding that Forster does dread really well. Like this and Howard’s End almost make my stomach queasy for some of the characters…it was for Len and this time around it’s for Aziz…..

“I am a holy man minus the holiness”


I think stuff is about to go down! I have enjoyed the conversations between Fielding and Aziz!

“Aziz had a wild desire to make an enemy for life”

I love these kind of Forster lines!

Only three pages in and it’s so nature focused and descriptive! I’m excited for this to one of my summer reads!