Impelled by feelings that were primal yet paradoxically wholly imperso…

Arundhati Roy
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Impelled by feelings that were primal yet paradoxically wholly impersonal. Feelings of contempt born of inchoate, unacknowledged fear--civilization's fear of nature, men's fear of women, power's fear of powerlessness. Man's subliminal urge to destroy what he could neither subdue nor deify. ✨ Arundhati Roy (2002). The God of Small Things, p.308, Penguin Books India
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