Both of these made me stop reading and just think. The footnotes pointed out the structure of the first: four statements in passive voice that emphasize the active voice of the fifth. The second one takes the reader by surprise and is just…beautiful.
ch xxviii
The burden must be carried; the want provided for; the suffering endured; the responsibility fulfilled. I set out.
ch xxxiv
‘And I shall see it again,’ he said aloud, ‘in dreams, when I sleep by the Ganges; and again, in a more remote hour - when another slumber overcomes me, on the shore of a darker stream!’
