An Excerpt
Book: Shantaram
Author: Gregory David Roberts
It’s about: a hilarious sarcasm of “Sound Sleep”
“There’s a theory that Snoring at night in sleep is a subconscious defense reflex – a warning sound that frightened potential predators away from the mouth of cave when our lower-Paleolithic ancestors huddled in vulnerable sleep. That group of Afghan nomads, cameleers, sheep and goat herders, farmers and guerrilla fighters lent credibility to the idea, for they snored so thunderously and with such persistent ferocity through the long, cold night that they would’ve frightened a pride of ravenous lions into scattering like startled mice.”
An Excerpt
Book: Shantaram
Author: Gregory David Roberts
It’s about: The Journey of drug into the soul
“HEROIN IS A SENSORY DEPRIVATION TANK for the soul. Floating on the Dead Sea of the drug stone, there’s no sense of pain, no regret or shame, no feelings of guilt or grief, no depression, no desire. The sleeping universe enters and envelops every atom of existence. Insensible stillness and peace disperse fear and suffering. Thoughts drift like ocean weeds and vanish in the distant, grey somnolency, unperceived, and indeterminable. The body succumbs to cryogenic slumber: the listless heart beats faintly, and breathing slowly fades to random whispers. Thick nirvanic numbness clogs the limbs, and downward, deeper, the sleeper slides and glides toward oblivion, the perfect and eternal stone.
That Chemical absolution is paid for, like everything else in the universe, with light. The first light junkies lose is the light in their eyes. A Junkie’s eyes are as lightless as the eyes of Greek statues, as lightless as hammered lead, as lightless as a bullet hole in a dead man’s back. The next light lost is the light of Desire. Junkies kill desire with the same weapon they use on hope and dream and honour: the club made from their craving. And when all the other lights of life are gone, the list light lost is the light of Love. Sooner or later, when it’s drawn to the last hit, the junkie will give up the woman he loves, rather than go without; sooner or later, every hard junkie becomes a devil in exile. ”
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