honesty for Naipaul too often meant the untrammeled expression of extreme prejudice
his Islamophobic comments that gave succor to Hindutva
No time to change or to titivate much. She feels plain, narrow, slips up to put on lipstick.
So dumb. Let’s pretend it never happened. Deal?
Today will be back to normal.
When he moves within her, they’re nearly whole and innocent again. Yet at times, she glimpses a frantic tinge of yearning in his face that wasn’t there before — or else she didn’t apprehend it. Then he has the panic…
He’s a pond into which things drop, vanish. He hates when she calls him the absentminded professor, sensing a prick in it. Do all Ivy League academics possess reverent, pragmatic spouses who manage the boring earthly acts of clothing and cleaning and child-rearing and pleasing that they might occup…
