The growth rate (compound) in Rural Non-Farm Employment during 1977-83 was 4.06 per cent per annum while it was 3.28 per cent per annum and 2.14 per cent per annum during 1983-94 and 1993-2000 respectively. ... Growth of these activities thus tends to increase rural inequality. ...
Chapter One The narrator assures us that the book we are about to read is true, more or less. The parts dealing with World War II are most closely associated with actual events. Twenty-three years have passed since the end of the war, and for much of that time the narrator has been trying to write about the bombing of Dresden. He was never able to write the book. When he thinks about Dresden's place in his memory, he always recalls two things: a dirty limerick about a man whose penis has let him down, and "My Name is Yon Yonson," a song which has no ending. ...
