Bye Bye Blackbird
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I am here, he intoned, as an ambassador. I am showing these damn imperialists with their lost colonies complex that we are free people now, with our own personalities that this veneer of an. English education has not obscured, and not afraid to match
ours with theirs. I am here, he proselytized, to interpret my country to them, to conquer England as they once conquered India, to show them, to show them.
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"It's not only the old who have regrets,"
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"There's always a fresh start and a clean page and a shining Monday morning to live for."
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"But there are no beggars in England. We are always told that in India - that no one needs to beg in England."
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He had known them all, he had met them before, in the pages of Dickens and Lamb, Addison, and Boswell, Dryden and Jerome K. Jerome; not in colour and in three dimensions as he now encountered them, but in black and white (and made of paper – )and yet how exact the reproductions had been, how accurate, he realised as he recognised the originals around him,within reach at last.
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''I wouldn't live in a country where I was insulted and unwanted'' he said grandly.
''No?Why have you come then?''
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Nereye giderseniz gidin, aynı duygusal açlık ve ihtiyaçlarla karşılaşırsınız. Farklı olan, onları tatmin etme yollarımızdır.
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