Phoenix, Volume 1Sri Lanka Association for Commonwealth Literature and Language Studies, 1990 - Commonwealth literature (English) |
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... shouted in chorus , " Gihing vareng ! " as my farewell My mother pretended not to hear the insult . The snobbish little bastards ! But how can I blame them ? That day I was deeply ashamed of my mother . Now , whenever I remember , I am ...
... shouted in chorus , " Gihing vareng ! " as my farewell My mother pretended not to hear the insult . The snobbish little bastards ! But how can I blame them ? That day I was deeply ashamed of my mother . Now , whenever I remember , I am ...
Page 50
... shouts were of three kinds : " We don't want you here . This is my land . These are my people ... " ( L2 , p 2 ) ... shouted , the paper I put up at the post office and a wild terror that I had stumbled upon a world of evil that was ...
... shouts were of three kinds : " We don't want you here . This is my land . These are my people ... " ( L2 , p 2 ) ... shouted , the paper I put up at the post office and a wild terror that I had stumbled upon a world of evil that was ...
Page 56
... shouted , the paper I put up at the post office and a wild terror that I had stumbled upon a world of evil that was eternal and would live forever . It was potent enough for me . I felt it . I felt that I would go through this ...
... shouted , the paper I put up at the post office and a wild terror that I had stumbled upon a world of evil that was eternal and would live forever . It was potent enough for me . I felt it . I felt that I would go through this ...
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