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Page 23
Then we were told what our first appointments were to be. I was to go as Cadet to
Jaffna in the Northern Province. As I walked out of the Secretariat into the
Colombo sun, which in the late morning hits one as if a burning hand were
smacking ...
Then we were told what our first appointments were to be. I was to go as Cadet to
Jaffna in the Northern Province. As I walked out of the Secretariat into the
Colombo sun, which in the late morning hits one as if a burning hand were
smacking ...
Page 48
It went on like this for a full half hour, and if you left out the curses and the
language, you would find the same sort of stilted stuff in any of the swarms of 1st
class books in the Union library. I began my life as a civil servant in Jaffna by
living with ...
It went on like this for a full half hour, and if you left out the curses and the
language, you would find the same sort of stilted stuff in any of the swarms of 1st
class books in the Union library. I began my life as a civil servant in Jaffna by
living with ...
Page 49
It is quite different in Jaffna; there as soon as you leave the main street, the
esplanade, or the seashore, you are in a typical Tamil village of narrow roads
between cadjan fences which hide whitewashed low huts or bungalows,
bowered in ...
It is quite different in Jaffna; there as soon as you leave the main street, the
esplanade, or the seashore, you are in a typical Tamil village of narrow roads
between cadjan fences which hide whitewashed low huts or bungalows,
bowered in ...
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| Title | Growing, an autobiography of the years 1904-1911 |
| Author | Leonard Woolf |
| Publisher | Hogarth Press, 1961 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 13 Mar 2008 |
| Length | 256 pages |
| Subjects | › › Authors, English Biography & Autobiography / Literary Literary Criticism / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh Sri Lanka |
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