Many of the men Natalie Blake became involved with after
Rodney Banks were as socioeconomially and culturally alien to
her as Frank was, and far less attractive, but still she
didn’t approach Frank, nor did he approach her, despite
their keen awareness of each other. A poetic way of putting
this would be to say, “There was an inevitability about the
road toward each other which encouraged meandering along the
way.”
-- Zadie Smith, NW
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