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portraits were on the mantle. French novels lined one bookshelf. The
sounds of the outside world could be heard: a lawnmower, the buzzing
of a fighter jet from a nearby airbase. A compact man of 72, Naipaul
has been ill in recent months, and said he is not working on a book at
the moment. Although it was unseasonably hot on the splendid sunny
afternoon of the longest day of the year, he wore a tweed jacket and
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Naipaul has said he wrote the novel [5]''Half a Life'' (2001) only to
fulfill a publisher's contract, and that [6]''Magic Seeds'' (2004)
would be his last novel. (Over the years, he has often hinted at
retirement, only to publish another book soon after.) Yet the fact
that Naipaul has continued to write novels does not undercut his acute
awareness of the form's limitations; indeed, it amplifies it. His is
the lament of a writer who, through a life devoted to his craft, has
discovered that the tools at his disposal are no longer adequate. ''If
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situation -- in particular, the clash between belief and unbelief in
postcolonial societies. ''I became very interested in the Islamic
question, and thought I would try to understand it from the roots, ask
very simple questions and somehow make a narrative of that
discovery,'' he said. To what extent, he wondered, had ''people who
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active busy world''? ''To what extent without knowing it'' were they
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central paradox of today's situation: that some who have benefited
from the blessings of the West now seek to destroy it.
In November 2001 Naipaul told an audience of anxious New Yorkers still
reeling from the attack on the World Trade Center that they were
facing ''a war declared on you by people who passionately want one
thing: a green card.'' What happened on Sept. 11 ''was too
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