I know, I know, I'm always talking about 'the twin thing', but I can't help it. This subject is what hooked me onto this book and what interests me the most, so here goes.
"'But Communists don't believe in ghosts,' Estha said, as though they were continuing a discourse investigating solutions to the ghost problem. Their conversations surfaced and dipped like mountain streams. Sometimes audible to other people. Sometimes not" (190-191).
The twins' ability to continue a conversation that was never once materialized into the physical world and which began secretly between each others' minds, in a way, is quite astonishing. This is just another indicator at what kind of bond they truly have and also another example of their 'silent contract' that I mentioned before.
I also think that the "surfac[ing] and dip[ping] like mountain streams" description is quite accurate and beautiful. This is one of the reasons I fell in love with Arundhati Roy's writing, because of her constant ability to describe things eloquently and in a manner in which I have never thought about them before. I truly wish that Roy had written more novels than one.
This website is a compilation of twin stories (both identical and fraternal), talking about the bonds they have with their twin, and I think that as a companion reading to this novel it is quite interesting.
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