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...began the friendship of Mrs. Moore and Dr. Aziz. It is all the story of A Passage to India. For their friendship led to complications so involved that before it ended (with Mrs. Moore's death) the city was in revolt. At each stage of their innocent progress toward intimacy the massive forces of misunderstanding and suspicion coiled around them and their friends. The common-sensical politeness and kindliness of Mrs. Moore was the greatest mystery in India. It baffled people like Dr. Aziz. They thought she was joining them when she was merely being kind. They thought...
...Moore never knew the wild, reckless, intoxicated efforts her friendship put them to. Dr. Aziz happily spent all his money, the resources of a lifetime, and risked his neck repeatedly, merely to take his English friends on a picnic. One of the most vividly imagined people in English fiction, normal and matter-of-fact as anybody's grandmother, Mrs. Moore set a large and strategic portion of the Empire on edge merely by being herself in an unbelievably different world...
...Indian Heart. Her only rival as an imaginative creation is Dr. Aziz. With his emotionalism, his ready tears, his hunger for affection and his sudden patronizing of the people who respond to it, his humor and his brilliant discourses on the Mogul Emperors, his absentmindedness (after he had arranged his mighty expedition to the famed Marabar Caves he asked: "By the way, what is in these caves, brother? Why are we going to see them?"), Dr. Aziz tells U.S. readers more about the secret places of the Indian heart than any living Indian...
After 20 years, the celebrated scenes of A Passage to India-the eerie sunstroke episode in the caves, when Miss Quested imagines that Dr. Aziz has insulted her, the melodramatic trial, when she lets, the Empire down by refusing to bear false witness against him-seem less impressive; the brilliant characterizations, the religious and political insights, the atmosphere, more impressive. Much that once seemed stage setting now seems as live as a hand grenade. Sample: the jocular references to Japanese spies...
...portrait of Aziz that has gained depth. When he plays polo with an English soldier, each thinks, as they separate: "If only they were all like that.'' And at the end of the book, as he is riding horseback with the one English friend who has stood by him, he delivers his heartbreaking prophecy and curse...