From: joe_f@verizon.net   
      
   jmm1951@gmail.com writes:   
      
   > Anyhow, when you think about it, Passage to India should have some   
   > interest to any Orwell enthusiast, since Orwell must have been well   
   > aware of the book published ten years before his own Burmese Days,   
   > which is a kind of answer to A Passage to India.   
      
   Perhaps someone with access to the Collected Works can find his   
   earliest mention of it.  The earliest in CEJL is in 1936 (2 years   
   after the publication of BD):   
      
     _A Passage to India_ is not the perfect novel about India, but it   
     is the best we have ever had and the best we are likely to get,   
     for it is only by some improbable accident that anyone capable of   
     writing a decent novel can be got to stay in India long enough to   
     absorb the atmosphere.   
      
   It would seem to follow that no Indian was capable of writing a decent   
   novel.   
   --   
   ---  Joe Fineman    joe_f@verizon.net   
      
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