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My favourite excerpts from Shantaram. A Novel Pt 2
Posted 11-03-2009 at 05:13 AM by PNGBC
Excerpt taken just after Lin the main character, has holed himself up inside a room after mourning his friend and weeping for the first time in this journey..
The tears, when they come to some men, are worse than beatings. They are wounded worse by sobbing, than they are by boots and batons. Tears begin in the heart, but some of us deny the heart so often, and for so long, that when it speaks we hear not one but a hundred sorrows in the heartbreak. We know that crying is a good and natural thing. We know crying isn't a weakness, but a kind of strength. Still, the weeping rips us root by tangled root from the earth, and we often crash like fallen trees when we cry.
The tears, when they come to some men, are worse than beatings. They are wounded worse by sobbing, than they are by boots and batons. Tears begin in the heart, but some of us deny the heart so often, and for so long, that when it speaks we hear not one but a hundred sorrows in the heartbreak. We know that crying is a good and natural thing. We know crying isn't a weakness, but a kind of strength. Still, the weeping rips us root by tangled root from the earth, and we often crash like fallen trees when we cry.
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You're the 3rd person to recommend this book. The other two are friends whose opinions I value very much.
Posted 11-03-2009 at 10:30 AM by risky
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honestly I don't find that particular passage to be well written.Posted 11-04-2009 at 02:53 AM by Shang Chi 
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Some of these excerpts are chosen not always for its flow of words, but rather for the meaning that was conveyed in it...at least
to my mind. As a man I can relate to this as it rings very true in my life and in the few but emotionally devastating times that I've cried it
always happend just as he describes it here...hence its inclusion...
Posted 11-04-2009 at 08:28 PM by PNGBC
