def: A sudden diminish from larger substance to a less.
"At the edge of the dock itself, there were twenty large, wooden fishing boats, built to the same designs used for vessels that had sailed the Arabian Sea, on the Maharashtrian coast of India, five hundred years before. Here and there between them were larger, more expensive metal boats. The contrast between those rusted, graceless hulks and the elegant wooden boats beside them spoke a history, a modern saga, a world story that moved from life at sea, as a romantic calling, to the profiteer's cold, efficient lusting for the bottom line."
"At the edge of the dock itself, there were twenty large, wooden fishing boats, built to the same designs used for vessels that had sailed the Arabian Sea, on the Maharashtrian coast of India, five hundred years before. Here and there between them were larger, more expensive metal boats. The contrast between those rusted, graceless hulks and the elegant wooden boats beside them spoke a history, a modern saga, a world story that moved from life at sea, as a romantic calling, to the profiteer's cold, efficient lusting for the bottom line."
-excerpt from the novel Shantaram, by Gregory David Roberts.
It is truly a sad thought as many things today share the unfortunate fate of those "graceless hulks".
On the upside, I believe this passage speaks to me the most out of all of the 933 pages in the book. Nine-hundred and thirty-three pages? Not bad for one who dislikes reading. Perhaps I can no longer claim to dislike this dubious act of reading after I have read, and thoroughly enjoyed, every page of such a lengthy novel! I don't find myself getting excited over many things, and if I do, I tend not to show it. This book is absolutely wonderful, intellectually sound, poetic, and beautifully descriptive.
I highly recommend this book.
On the upside, I believe this passage speaks to me the most out of all of the 933 pages in the book. Nine-hundred and thirty-three pages? Not bad for one who dislikes reading. Perhaps I can no longer claim to dislike this dubious act of reading after I have read, and thoroughly enjoyed, every page of such a lengthy novel! I don't find myself getting excited over many things, and if I do, I tend not to show it. This book is absolutely wonderful, intellectually sound, poetic, and beautifully descriptive.
I highly recommend this book.
