"In your view of wifedom,” I began, “is the wife to acknowledge having a personality and will of her own, or do you see her as simply being responsive to her. . .her husband?

The Indian Elephant is endemic to the region of interest, using both the Ganges and the Mekong Rivers as resources for water and bathing.

... these importations, continued by the successors of this prince and by the Mertnid dynasty, soon drove the Berber element into the mountains or absorbed and arabicised it.

I wanted her to scan the motorway's long acre / And the tarmac and grassy patches at the airport / And undress her prey in the sky and beat the air / Above grasshopper and skylark as the wind-fucker.