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Dying, we saw, was simply change taken to points of mocking extremity...

Sara Suleri

Shahid has grown increasingly committed to the art of indignation, waking up in the morning with an expression of incipient disgust already in stock for all the affronts he will surely encounter during the course of the day.

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To mourn, perhaps, is simply to prolong a posture of astonishment...

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For never has there been, in modern times, such a Homeric world, where so much value is pinned onto the utterance of name! Entire conversations, entire lives, are devoted to the act of naming people, and in Pakistan the affluent would be totally devoid of talk if they were unable to take names in vain. Caste and all its subclassifications are recreated every day in the structure of a conversation that knows which names to name...

Sara Suleri

Sara Suleri

Sara Suleri

Born: June 12, 1953

Died: March 20, 2022 (aged 68)

Bio: Sara Suleri Goodyear, born Sara Suleri, was an author and professor emeritus of English at Yale University, where her fields of study and teaching include Romantic and Victorian poetry and an interest in Edmund Burke.

Known for:

Meatless days (1989)
The Rhetoric of English India (1992)
Boys will be boys (2003)

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