Word: kiplinger
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Basu last week warned darkly that if his Marxists are not included, "there will be bloodshed all over the state." No one doubts Basu's potential for mayhem-or the grim appropriateness of Rudyard Kipling's description of Calcutta, written nearly a century ago:
The Code of Kipling
The hero of Stranger is Valentine Michael Smith, a human who, somewhat like Kipling's Mowgli, was reared from infancy by nonhumans, in his case Martians, and in the process acquired hypnotic and magical powers. He comes to earth, is tutored by a man called Jubal, then sets out...
Like Hamlet, who claimed, "I could be bounded in a nutshell and count myself a King of infinite space," Borges seems completely at home with his years and his blindness. By 1955, his sight was nearly gone. "I stopped wasting time at movies," he jokes. But he actually began an...