They walked along, two continents of experience and feeling unable to communicate.

In India the odd thing is that English is this almost artificial language floating on the surface of a place with about fifty other languages. The same is true of Nigeria but even more so.

However you disguise novels, they are always biographies.

The rules!" shouted Ralph, "you're breaking the rules!" "Who cares?

At the moment of vision, the eyes see nothing.

I'm scared of him," said Piggy, "and that's why I know him. If you're scared of someone you hate him but you can't stop thinking about him. You kid yourself he's all right really, an' then when you see him again; it's like asthma an' you can't breathe.

Put simply the novel stands between us and the hardening concept of statistical man. There is no other medium in which we can live for so long and so intimately with a character. That is the service a novel renders.