Roving East and Roving West

By Lucas, E. V.

Book Id: WPLBN0000629222
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Reproduction Date: 2005

Title:	Roving East and Roving West
Author:	Lucas, E. V.
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Language:	English
Subject:	Literature, Literature & thought, Writing.
Collections:	Classic Literature Collection, Blackmask Online Collection
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Publisher:	Blackmask Online


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Description
Excerpt: NOISELESS FEET Although India is a land of walkers, there is no sound of footfalls. Most of the feet are bare and all are silent: dark strangers overtake one like ghosts. Both in the cities and the country some one is always walking. There are carts and motorcars, and on the roads about Delhi a curious service of camel omnibuses, but most of the people walk, and they walk ever. In the bazaars they walk in their thousands; on the long, dusty roads, miles from anywhere, there are always a few, approaching or receding. It is odd that the only occasion on which Indians break from their walk into a run or a trot is when they are bearers at a funeral, or have an unusually heavy head?load, or carry a piano. Why there is so much piano? carrying in Calcutta I cannot say, but the streets (as I feel now) have no commoner spectacle than six or eight merry, half?naked fellows, trotting along, laughing and jesting under their burden, all with an odd, swinging movement of the arms. One of one?s earliest impressions of the Indians is that their hands are inadequate. They suggest no power.

Table of Contents
Table of Contents: Roving East and Roving West, 1 -- E.V. Lucas, 1 -- INDIA, 3 -- NOISELESS FEET, 3 -- THE SAHIB, 4 -- THE PASSING SHOW, 4 -- INDIA'S BIRDS, 6 -- THE TOWERS OF SILENCE, 7 -- THE GARLANDS, 8 -- DELHI, 8 -- A DAY'S HAWKING, 10 -- NEW, OR IMPERIAL, DELHI, 12 -- THE DIVERS, 14 -- THE ROPE TRICK, 14 -- AGRA AND FATEHPUR?SIKRI, 14 -- LUCKNOW, 16 -- A TIGER, 17 -- THE SACRED CITY, 20 -- CALCUTTA, 21 -- ROSE AYLMER, 21 -- JOB AND JOE, 22 -- EXIT, 23 -- JAPAN, 23 -- INTRODUCTORY, 23 -- THE LITTLE LAND, 23 -- THE RICE FIELDS, 24 -- SURFACE MATERIALISM, 24 -- FIRST GLIMPSE OF FUJI, 25 -- TWO FUNERALS, 25 -- THE LITTLE GEISHA, 26 -- MANNERS, 26 -- THE PLAY, 27 -- MYANOSHITA, 28 -- AMERICA, 29 -- DEMOCRACY AT HOME, 29 -- SAN FRANCISCO, 30 -- ROADS GOOD AND BAD, 30 -- UNIVERSITIES, LOVE AND PRONUNCIATION, 30 -- FIRST SIGNS OF PROHIBITION, 31 -- R.L.S, 32 -- STORIES AND HUMOURISTS, 32 -- THE CARS, 34 -- CHICAGO, 34 -- THE MOVIES, 35 -- THE AMERICAN FACE, 36 -- PROHIBITION AGAIN, 37 -- THE BALL GAME, 38 -- SKYSCRAPERS, 40