Tag: all that is
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all that is – 7: things that do not ask for thanks
listen to this chapter now on youtube! go to series homepage The past is a foreign country, they do things differently there. And there, in that soot-stained, fever-sweated, eternally queueing republic called India, land of ancient gods and ration coupons, of overpromised futures and undercooked dreams, what they did, what they perfected, what they made…
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all that is – 6: almost a date
listen to this chapter now on youtube! go to series homepage He saved the file before he could think better of it. set my world on fire.txt It sat on his Windows desktop among things that pretended to matter: resume, induction notes, a folder called Java that he hadn’t yet opened properly. The clock in…
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all that is – 5: the last days of the 20th century man
listen to this chapter now on youtube! go to series homepage It was the best of times. It was the worst of times. It was unmistakably the end of time as we knew it. The twentieth century was down to its final ten breaths, its last flickering fax transmissions, and its remaining struts down the…
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all that is – 3: the stomach charmer
listen to this chapter now on youtube! go to series homepage It was a truth universally acknowledged, at least by the teachers and half the student body, that his stomach had a mind of its own. On most days, it operated within acceptable parameters, growling at lunch, bubbling during chemistry, but occasionally, it would declare…
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all that is – 2. cats of mayavaram
listen to this chapter now on youtube! go to series homepage There was, of course, only one type of bus that wandered, rattling and roaring, across the endless sprawl of Tamil Nadu’s roads. No matter what name it carried, Thiruvalluvar or otherwise, each was the same: rusted seats that had borne years of passengers, windows…
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