![]() ![]() But these moments also echo the unrequitable nostalgia the book expresses for remote paradises. Nili is by far the brightest fish on the reef she gleams in the sunlight. The book quivers with these startling physical shocks, which have an exhilarating buoyancy of their own. My instinct was to press the ears back with my hands and keep the entrances to her soul open like the lips of a glazed pink conch.' ![]() Each with two symmetrical wrinkles where they joined her neck and the outer edges curled in like the edge of a puppadum when it hits hot oil. She is described with intense fervour leaning over at dinner, her elbow brushes the servant's sarong while he stares, out of breath and speechless, at her feminine ears. An authentic spice of immediacy, though, burns through the persistent stab of impossible longing Triton feels for the lady of the house, Nili. ![]()
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