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The two of them kept an eye open for every tree or temple we passed by, and turned to me for a reaction of piety which I gave them, of course, and with growing elaborateness: first just touching my eye, then my neck, then my clavicle, and even my nipples. They were convinced I was the most religious servant on earth.
The two of them kept an eye open for every tree or temple we passed by, and turned to me for a reaction of piety which I gave them, of course, and with growing elaborateness: first just touching my eye, then my neck, then my clavicle, and even my nipples. They were convinced I was the most religious servant on earth.
Approximate author period: c. 2008 AD · contemporary
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- Aravind Adiga
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