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[ Man ]
Chapter one.
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"He sat in defiance of municipal orders
astride the gun Zamzammah--"
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I can't read these words. I can't
read them. They stick in my throat.
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[ Almasy ] Because you're
reading it too fast.
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- Not at all.
- You have to read Kipling slowly.
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The eye is too impatient.
Think about the speed of his pen.
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What is it ?
"He sat, comma,
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"in defiance of
municipal orders, comma,
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"astride the gun
Zamzammah...
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on her brick--"
What is it ?
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"Brick platform, opposite the old
Ajaib-Gher."
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"The wonder house, comma,
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as the natives called
the Lahore Museum."
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It's still there, the cannon,
outside the museum.
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Made of metal cups and bowls taken
from every household in the city as tax,
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then melted down.
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Then later, they fired
the cannon at my people,
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comma,
the natives.
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Full stop.
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[ Slurping ]
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What exactly
is it you object to ?
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The writer,
or what he's writing about ?
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What I really
object to, Uncle,
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is your finishing
all my condensed milk.
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And the message everywhere in your book,
however slowly I read it,
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that the best thing for India
is to be ruled by the British.
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Hana, we have discovered
a shared pleasure, the boy and I.
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- Arguing about books ?
- Condensed milk.
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One of the truly
great inventions.
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I'll get
another tin.
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I didn't like that book either.
It's all about men.
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Too many men.
Just like this house.
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You like him, don't you ?
Your voice changes.
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No, I don't
think it does.
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Anyway,
he's indifferent to me.
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I don't think
it's indifference.
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- Hana was just telling me,
you're indifferent...
- Hey !
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to her cooking.
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Well, I'm indifferent
to cooking.