Change had come over him without his knowing. There had been no precise point at which the city had lost its romance and promise, no point at which h… - V. S. Naipaul

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Change had come over him without his knowing. There had been no precise point at which the city had lost its romance and promise, no point at which he had begun to consider himself old, his career closed, and his visions of the future became only visions of Anand's future. Each realization had been delayed and had come, not as a surprise, but as a statement of a condition long accepted.