enabling her to adventure in security. Adventuring, she was indifferent, perhaps blind, to the contradiction between what she said and what she was so secure of being; and this indifference or blindness, this absence of the sense of the absurd, was part of her unassailability." References 1975 British novels 1975 American novels Novels by V. S. Naipaul Alfred A. Knopf books Novels set in the Caribbean André Deutsch books