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 31
... spaceships - build your spaceships well - you got to build them well , and have toilets in them - who knows when you'll need the toilets , hearing the bombs screech at you , and you get these sudden urges to go , and things are ...
... spaceships - build your spaceships well - you got to build them well , and have toilets in them - who knows when you'll need the toilets , hearing the bombs screech at you , and you get these sudden urges to go , and things are ...
Page 32
... spaceships . It was always handy to have a spaceship around . It was like insurance against accidents . ' A wild dance of celebration , in the meanwhile , was going on , ushering in the new Sri Lanka , a resurgent Sri Lanka . The island ...
... spaceships . It was always handy to have a spaceship around . It was like insurance against accidents . ' A wild dance of celebration , in the meanwhile , was going on , ushering in the new Sri Lanka , a resurgent Sri Lanka . The island ...
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... spaceship which he thinks we should take great care of in the building so we can get that glorious lift - off at the precise moment the doomsday bomb goes off . Yes , there you are- it is all there . But , for me - give me the mountains ...
... spaceship which he thinks we should take great care of in the building so we can get that glorious lift - off at the precise moment the doomsday bomb goes off . Yes , there you are- it is all there . But , for me - give me the mountains ...
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