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A Passage to India ‧ 1924

E. M. Forster

Where there is officialism every human relationship suffers.

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What it means

Our interpretation.

Forster says rules and red tape damage how people treat each other. Where official procedure rules, connection gets strained. It reads as a warning that formality can come between people and make honest human contact harder.

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