And thank you for telling me that the manner in which the narrator consistently fails to act morally is really compelling. Fuck you.
"No, it'll get cold!"
"Put a tut ahh put a-"
We gather around the start of a causeway down to the Thames. It's a pretty cold night and there's a breeze coming off the river.
One of the birds shoots out of the tree.
We stand there laughing. The fireworks go off behind him.
I've found the girl, or she's found me, and we're smoking a cigarette while we watch the silhouettes of the French Raj and his fireworks bearer down on the bank.
ahnaf is it worth reading all those books