12-19-2018, 03:35 PM
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#3892
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Nameless Being
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‘I could never make up my mind,’ he wrote, ‘whether Kipling had moulded his characters accurately in the image of Anglo-Indian society or whether we were moulding our characters accurately in the image of a Kipling story.
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Leonard Woolf, quoted in The British in India by David Gilmour
I posted this because I found it an astonishing endorsement of Kipling's work, and made sense of my reaction when I first read Kim: "this is my Dad's India!"
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