Desai is our guy.
He invokes an interesting range of deities:
"God knows the present needs more of me than I have to give." (p. 85)
"God!" (ibid.)
"Krishna!" (p. 93)
"Siva have mercy." (p. 98)
He is a linking character. In an otherwise atrocious Batman film, one newly introduced character was a business contact of Bruce Wayne (the Batman), the employer of Selina Kyle (the Catwoman) and the political backer of Oswald Cobblepot (the Penguin). Similarly, Desai:
remembers his conversation with Uldwyr;
converses with Aycharaych;
replays his conversation with Jowett;
looks out, at some length, across Nova Roma and Aeneas;
reflects on the Terran Empire -
- all in a single chapter. A guy that we want to see a lot more of.
1 comment:
Kaor, Paul!
Problem is, civil servants like Chunderban Desai generally lead quiet lives. They seldom make much of a splash, or even want to!
Still, we are lucky to see so much of Desai in THE DAY OF THEIR RETURN.
Ad astra! Sean
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