“Bagpipe Music” is a comical rhyming poem by the Irish writer Louis MacNeice. It subtly criticizes the way modern English society destroys traditional customs and communities. “Bagpipe Music” is Dilip’s favorite poem—which is ironic, because (like Nirad Das) he is an Indian man who prefers English culture to Indian culture.
“Bagpipe Music” Quotes in Indian Ink
The Indian Ink quotes below are all either spoken by “Bagpipe Music” or refer to “Bagpipe Music”. For each quote, you can also see the other terms and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
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It’s no go the records of the Theosophical Society, it’s no go the newspaper files partitioned to ashes … All we want is the facts and to tell the truth in our fashion … Her knickers were made of crêpe-de-Chine, her poems were up in Bow Street, her list of friends laid end to end … weren’t in it for the poetry. But it’s no go the watercolour, it’s no go the Modigliani … The glass is falling hour by hour, and we’re back in the mulligatawny … But we will leave no Das unturned. He had a son.
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“Bagpipe Music” Term Timeline in Indian Ink
The timeline below shows where the term “Bagpipe Music” appears in Indian Ink. The colored dots and icons indicate which themes are associated with that appearance.
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...Blavatsky moved her Theosophical Society to India, he says, quoting his favorite English poem, “ Bagpipe Music .”
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...stage while Pike and Dilip come onto another part, drinking and chanting the poem “ Bagpipe Music .” Dilip tells Pike that the Jummapur branch of the Theosophical Society was shut down...
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