Tuesday, August 14, 2018
I Wished I Was of Their Spirit
V.S. Naipaul (1932-2018), An Area of Darkness (1964; rpt. New York: Vintage Books, 2002), p. 178 (the god = Shiva):
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The god existed: the faces and cries of the returning pilgrims carried this reassurance. I wished I was of their spirit. I wished that something of their joy awaited me at the end.Naipaul, A Turn in the South (New York: Penguin Books, 1989), p. 15:
So I began to feel the pleasures of the religious meeting: the pleasures of brotherhood, union, formality, ritual, clothes, music, all combining to create a possibility of ecstasy.
