| 1 | "Mm, " the old woman groaned in a kind of nonhuman, metallic voice. | |
| 2 | I pictured her at the sink watching her milk disappear, my story a pathetic whimper next to hers. | |
| 3 | How incongruous seemed the mem-sahibs there, in their evening-dresses, the hum of English conversation, and the ripples of laughter! | |
| 4 | You could say that in 1968 we "spoke Marxist," just as you say someone lisps or speaks through his nose, because at the university it was the dominant language. |