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get sick etc. Though you pay in lack of personal and economic freedom, for all must be maintained for the sake of the whole family, you also have obligations to support family members who have no job or the elderly.

Dilip is trapped. A bright boy, but economically trapped. He will spend the rest of his life in seeking the security of government service, working his way slowly up the ladder, always with the memory of poverty at his back.'

People on the street, laborers, office workers, peddlers, look relatively happy, you see them laughing with each other, joking, conversing with their friends. But scratch underneath the surface of most lives here and you will the economic situation of bare subsistence, of being haunted by the need of money.

Dec 31, 70

Signs painted on the front of two scooter-taxis

"Love is God" and on another "Life is nothing"

Last entry - India

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Brooklyn

But there was at least one great difference between them. Flaubert's doctrine of "impersonality" in art was equally an item in Joyce's literary creed. But impersonality can be "cold or "warm." Joyce's is warm in the profoundly, elusively tempered way that the impersonality of Shakespeare and Cervantes is "warm." Flaubert's is cold, with variations here and there. His relationship with his characters tends towards incompleteness; a void is formed which the author's brilliant irony is seldom capable of displacing.

"He is that most moving of men, the kind that tries not to feel yet does."

F.W. Dupee - Flaubert and the Sentimental Education

New York Review of Books April 22, 71 p 42

"the whole was cold and almost cruelly sad, but irreproachably quiet, free from symbolism except of the simple kind without which there can be no work of art, which permits us not only to feel the oppressive incomprehensibility of all nature but also to love it with a kind of sweet astonishment.

Rosshalde by Hermann Hesse p 8.