vishal menon

“Plutarch's Lives, Meditations of Marcus Aurelius, Chaucer, Imitation of Christ (Thomas a Kempis), Holy Living and Holy Dying (Jeremy Taylor), Pilgrim's Progress, Macaulay's Essays, Bacon's Essays, Addison's Essays, Essays of Elia (Charles Lamb), Les Miserables (Hugo), Heroes and Hero Worship (Carlyle), Palgrave's Golden Treasury, Wordsworth, Vicar of Wakefield, Adam Bede (George Eliot), Vanity Fair (Thackeray), Ivanhoe (Scott), On the Heights (Auerbach), Eugenie Grandet (Balzac), Scarlet Letter (Hawthorne), Emerson's Essays, Boswell's Life of Johnson, History of the English People (Green), Outlines of Universal History, Origin of Species, Montaigne's Essays, Longfellow, Tennyson, Browning, Whittier, Ruskin, Herbert Spencer.”
― Joseph Devlin, How to Speak and Write Correctly

“habit of calling each other ‘Jim’. No darlings or honeys or babes for them. In his low American drawl and her bright English chirp they Jimmed the Old Year out. ‘Hey, Jim?’ ‘Yes, Jim?’ ‘Happy New Year, Jim.’ ‘Happy New Year to you too, Jim.’ ‘I love you, Jim.’ ‘I love you too, Jim.’ 1990 arrived with a smile in the company of Jim and Jim.”
― Salman Rushdie, Joseph Anton: A Memoir

“He met her on 26 December 1969, five days before the end of the sixties, when he was twenty-two and she was twenty-one.”
― Salman Rushdie, Joseph Anton: A Memoir

“And by that destiny, to perform an act Whereof what’s past is prologue, what to come In yours and my discharge.”
― Salman Rushdie, Joseph Anton: A Memoir