Both Uses of
pariah
in
Running in the Family
- Like a crow swimming in milk,
like a nose being hit by a mango
like the crowd at the Royal-Thomian match,
a womb full of twins, a pariah dog
with a magpie in its mouth
like the midnight jet from Casablanca
like Air Pakistan curry,
a typewriter on fire, like a spirit in the gas†p. 76.8
- I had this image that the Ondaatjes were absolute pariahs.†
p. 177.3 *
Definition:
a social outcast