This one, the quarterfinal defeat at the Paris Olympics, is very personal. The Olympics were the main goal this year ... Even in Paris, it was pretty cool. I had my main pillars there. My brother was ...
One wrote, "You stood up for your daughter's privacy. He had no right to read her diary," while another added, "Leaving her bag behind was not an invitation to violate her privacy and read her diary.
In Naipaul’s notes I had liked the sentence ‘A sad, stunned city.’ But I didn’t find it in the final version. I had been attracted by the alliteration, which in that short sentence sounded to my ear ...