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    Take 2  - Book Reviews              

 The Dark Room                          

 R K Narayan                            

 Minerva, £5.99                         

  Savitri's husband, Ramani, is the sort

 of man who keeps his ties pressed      

 between a complete works of Byron and  

 an odd volume of the Encyclopedia      

 Britannica.                            

  Her protests at his tyranny usually   

 take the form of a sulk in a dark room,

 but when he begins an affair at work   

 she walks out.                         

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