From Kipling’s Kim:
“It was intrigue,— of course he knew that much, as he had known all evil since he could speak,— but what he loved was the game for its own sake — the stealthy prowl through the dark gullies and lanes, the crawl up a waterpipe, the sights and sounds of the women’s world on the flat roofs, and the headlong flight from housetop to housetop under cover of the hot dark.”
Author: Milan
In the spring of 2005, I graduated from the University of British Columbia with a degree in International Relations and a general focus in the area of environmental politics. Between 2005 and 2007 I completed an M.Phil in IR at Wadham College, Oxford. I worked for five years for the Canadian federal government, including completing the Accelerated Economist Training Program, and then completed a PhD in Political Science at the University of Toronto in 2023.
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Kim was a book gave up on on my first read through. When I went back to it, years later I thoroughly enjoyed it and the Great Game which is context that drives it.
I have a special bond with Kim as it took place in a city where I spent several years.
The book is now in the public domain: http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/2226
More Kipling: http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/132