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.
The burden must be carried; the want provided for; the suffering endured; the responsibility fulfilled. I set out. (ch xxviii)
‘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!’ (ch xxxiv)
