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I've never been in this situation before - giving a rave review to a book I DNF'ed by page 50. The failure is all mine - I can only handle satire in small doses, no matter how delicious the dose. Instead of reading further, I dipped into many pages at random and found delights on every one. The language is wickedly exuberant, the characters/animals perfect pitch avatars for their real-life counterparts.
Take for example "Dr. Sweet Mother", the younger donkey-wife of the aged horse Father of the Nation, who glories in her ability to whip crowds into a frenzy of patriotism. In one scene she is watching a video of one of her speeches:
Take for example "Dr. Sweet Mother", the younger donkey-wife of the aged horse Father of the Nation, who glories in her ability to whip crowds into a frenzy of patriotism. In one scene she is watching a video of one of her speeches:
"....she shines, flies, soars, leaps, waltzes, sashays, swims, pirouettes, glides, twerks, somersaults - she can pull whatever move, do anything, you name it - only coming short of raising the dead in her mother tongue."....."The applause at the end of her delivery rings right in her heart all over again, and she increases the volume, feels the sound hit her bones, whip and stir the blood before lifting the intestines, the pancreas, the liver - tholukuthi generally all the innards, and, almost levitating now, flags her tail, raises both her front hooves, pumps them hard and cheers along with her admiring on-screen audience."
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I'm going to try it on audio - I hate giving up on language like that!
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