- publication date
- 1924-06-04
- first line
- Except for the Marabar Caves — and they are twenty miles off— the city of Chandrapore presents nothing extraordinary.
- last line
- But the horses didn’t want it — they swerved apart; the earth didn’t want it, sending up rocks through which riders must pass single file; the temples, the tank, the jail, the palace, the birds, the carrion, the Guest House, that came into view as they issued from the gap and raw Mau beneath: they didn’t want it, they said in their hundred voices: ‘No, not yet,’ and the sky said: ‘No, not there.’