H.N. was not fabulously wealthy, octolingual, or blond, but he was gorgeous and funny and skilled enough in the art of repartee to allow me to put these oversights down to a caprice of fate.

Goffin is a prose text interspersed with short lists of typical terms exemplifying certain sub-classes of Indian English lexis.

Ethnologists are in the wrong / About our sable brothers[.]

Marathe's wife was dying slowly of ventricular restenosis.