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The Best of Anita Desai (Clear Light of Day, Baumgartner's Bombay, In Custody in One Pack)
註釋Life spread in a pool around her, low and bright, lapping at her feet, but then quickly, treachrously rising to her ankles, to her knees. She had to get out of it. She had to life herself out before t rose to her waist, to her armpits. If only they had not wrapped her in those long swaddlings as if she was a baby, or a mummy ? these long strips that went round her, slipping over her eyes, crossing over her nose, making her breath stop so that she had to gasp and clutch ad tear.