“ Even in populated India a man cannot a day sit still before the wild things run over him as though he were a rock ”
Rudyard Kipling, The Second Jungle Book (1895). copy citation
Author | Rudyard Kipling |
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Source | The Second Jungle Book |
Topic | running |
Date | 1895 |
Language | English |
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Weblink | http://www.gutenberg.org/files/1937/1937-h/1937-h.htm |
Context
“Hiving and harvest, rice-sowing and husking, passed before his eyes, all embroidered down there on the many-sided plots of fields, and he thought of them all, and wondered what they all led to at the long last.
Even in populated India a man cannot a day sit still before the wild things run over him as though he were a rock; and in that wilderness very soon the wild things, who knew Kali’s Shrine well, came back to look at the intruder. The langurs, the big gray-whiskered monkeys of the Himalayas, were, naturally, the first, for they are alive with curiosity;”
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