I have read the first 5 chapters, so far. Then decided to go back and reread them before reading the next five chapters. I am finding it difficult to remember, from one day to the next, what I read the day before.
As with several of you, I was surprised this book began in Bengal. I am still wondering what Tuner, and his youger partner, have to do with anything. I think that Turner tossed Narain out the train window.
I remember that, as a child, I was given cough medicine with opium, or codeine, as an ingredient. It seems to me that codeine was also an ingredient in Coco Cola. Does anyone else remember that? By the time I had children, beginning in 1953, I think these had been eliminated. However, I do remember my grandmother giving my baby daughter, a "sugar tit", when she had colic. It was about a tablespoon of sugar, in a cloth, dipped in whiskey.
I feel sad about Daniel's death. How horrible to be run over by a vehicle. I do like Osgood. However, I do not like the policeman who takes him to the morgue. Especially, the policeman's view of women working. I guess that was the general opinion at the time.
