Drugs are a bad habit, so why do it? Because, said Dimple, it isn't the heroin that we're addicted to, it's the drama of the life, the chaos of it, that's the real addiction and we never get over it; and because when you come down to it, the high life, that is, the intoxicated life, is the best of the limited options offered.
The world is on fire; time is a bomb. Ten thousand years are not enough When so much remains to be done - Jeet Thayil
The world is on fire; time is a bomb. Ten thousand years are not enough When so much remains to be done
- Jeet Thayil
Drugs are a bad habit, so why do it? Because, said Dimple, it isn't the heroin that we're addicted to, it's the drama of the life, the chaos of it, t… - Jeet Thayil
Drugs are a bad habit, so why do it? Because, said Dimple, it isn't the heroin that we're addicted to, it's the drama of the life, the chaos of it, t…
How will the ships navigate without stars? And then he remembered that the stars were dead, long dead, and the light they shed was not to be trusted,… - Jeet Thayil
How will the ships navigate without stars? And then he remembered that the stars were dead, long dead, and the light they shed was not to be trusted,…
All I did was write it down, one word after the other, beginning and ending with the same one, Bombay. - Jeet Thayil
All I did was write it down, one word after the other, beginning and ending with the same one, Bombay.
Because now there's time enough not to hurry, to light the lamp and open the window to the moon and take a moment to dream of a great and broken city… - Jeet Thayil
Because now there's time enough not to hurry, to light the lamp and open the window to the moon and take a moment to dream of a great and broken city…
I found Bombay and opium, the drug and the city, the city of opium and the drug Bombay - Jeet Thayil
I found Bombay and opium, the drug and the city, the city of opium and the drug Bombay
We're waiting for a glance or a word, some acknowledgement that we are here. - Jeet Thayil
We're waiting for a glance or a word, some acknowledgement that we are here.
Then there are the addicts, the hunger addicts, the rage addicts, the poverty addicts, and power addicts, and the pure addicts who are addicted not t… - Jeet Thayil
Then there are the addicts, the hunger addicts, the rage addicts, the poverty addicts, and power addicts, and the pure addicts who are addicted not t…
Come on, a 25-page digression on god? You can’t have that kind of thing, cut it out!” - Jeet Thayil
Come on, a 25-page digression on god? You can’t have that kind of thing, cut it out!”
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