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From: Monarch Notes
Date: 19630101
Author:Forster, E. M.

Forster, E. M.
Monarch Notes
01-01-1963
A Passage To India: Chapters 12 - 25

Chapter Twelve

Here begins the "hot-weather" section of the book, called Caves.
Appropriately enough, this chapter is devoted to a description of the Marabar
caves-a series of undecorated, twenty-foot chambers with polished walls, each
of which is approached by an eight-foot long tunnel with rough
walls. They are all exactly alike. "Having seen one such cave," Forster
explains, "having seen two . . . the visitor returns to Chandrapore uncertain
whether he has had an interesting experience or a dull one or any experience

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