Finished one book. Onto the next!
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"Stalling for a last heartbeat of inaction..."
Meaning of title gets revealed near the end of chapter 1. "Whites" are criminals who got away, leaving the cops who chased them obsessed with justice undone.
Nor when expandingly lifted by your subject can you fail to trace out great whales in the starry heavens, and boats in pursuit of them; as when long filled with thoughts of war the Eastern nations saw armies locked in battle among the clouds.
The bombing, for which Mr. and Mrs. Khurana were not present, was a flat, percussive event that began under the bonnet of a parked white Maruti 800, though of course that detail, that detail about the car, could only be confirmed later.
They lived in two realms at once, like a certain kind of particle in quantum physics, simultaneously occupying the moral antipodes of a universe looking back at itself in a mirror, the entire world a shell company for another world, one reality a parallel for still another reality.
