One Mad Bid for FreedomA Widly Hilarious Yet Ultimately Poignant Novel By Sri Lanka`S Finest Living English Language Novelist. |
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Page 25
... sound . A man doing something in between singing and yelling , to the accompaniment of musical instruments . An electronic machine - a cassette - player - had been started up , and the man was shrieking out , in an uncanny , falsetto ...
... sound . A man doing something in between singing and yelling , to the accompaniment of musical instruments . An electronic machine - a cassette - player - had been started up , and the man was shrieking out , in an uncanny , falsetto ...
Page 48
... sound intensities . The operational assistant , sitting behind his console , intensely distracted at that moment , had his mind on other things than his con- sole . And just as he thought , an instant later , the female announcer ...
... sound intensities . The operational assistant , sitting behind his console , intensely distracted at that moment , had his mind on other things than his con- sole . And just as he thought , an instant later , the female announcer ...
Page 59
... sound of words . It made their talk sound weighty . It brought a zest into their drinking , and a new perspective into their lives . It gave them the feeling a third - year medical student had , when he had mugged up some basic terms ...
... sound of words . It made their talk sound weighty . It brought a zest into their drinking , and a new perspective into their lives . It gave them the feeling a third - year medical student had , when he had mugged up some basic terms ...
Common terms and phrases
asked beach become began believed bottle brain build Callay called coming common complete Conny creatures cried dead death decided Demos destroy direction discovered dropped especially excitement eyes face fact faithful feeling feet fellows felt final fish forces forms freedom friends gathered gave getting give gone hand head heard hold Hulft human ideas important inside island Kadalay Peiris kind knew known Korala Lanka later learned living looking marine mass memorial Mikhail mind moved naturalist needed never newspaper once original plans produced professor research station roar round rushing seemed shack shouting silence sitting sound stalwarts stand started stood story studied sudden suddenly talk tell things thought tion took truth trying Turab turned Van Hulft voice