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Time Fragments (Past (sentences that begin with "Past" (Walking…

- - - - If Comrade Pillai was outside his house oiling himself when Estha walked past, he made it a point to greet him.
      - "Estha would walk past, not rude, not polite."
      - "That he had looked at her and walked straight past."
      - "The homeless, the helpless, the sick, the small and lost, all filed past his window."
      - After the last few men walked past, Chacko said it was all right now to roll down the windows.
      - They squeezed past irritated people who moved their legs this way and that to make space.
      - He slid past the Audience (their legs moving thiswayandthat),
      - Rahel tried to walk past unnoticed.
      - She didn’t seem to notice the bristly shouldered rat even when it scuttled right past her feet.
      - They walked past the Class III Airport Workers’ Union token one-day hunger strike.
      - It was like welcoming someone with open arms, only to have him walk straight past into someone else’s.
      - Baby Kochamma, walking past the kitchen, heard the commotion.
      - Chacko, on his way to see Comrade K. N. M. Pillai, drifted past the bedroom window like an anxious, stealthy whale intending to peep in to see whether his wife (‘Ex-wife, Chacko,’) and daughter were awake and needed anything.
      - He was six now, long past the age of pushing things up his nose.
      - As the platoon of policemen minced past they didn’t hear him beg.
    - - "He walked past the village school that his great-grandfather built for Untouchable children."
      - Sometimes Estha walked past Lucky Press —old Comrade K. N. M. Pillai’s printing press, once the Ayemenem office of the Communist Party, where midnight study meetings were held, and pamphlets with rousing lyrics of Marxist Party songs were printed and distributed.
      - A skyblue Plymouth, with the sun in its tailfins, sped past young rice fields and old rubber trees on its way to Cochin.
      - They walked past the Refreshments Counter where the orangedrinks were waiting.
      - Driving past the inky sea, Estha put his head out of the window.
      - They were past the Really Deep, only yards from the Other Side, when they collided with a floating log and the little boat tipped over.
    - - "He walked past the old mangosteen tree and up to the edge of a laterite spur that jutted out into the river."
      - The train slammed past under a column of dense black smoke.
      - Green trees and telephone poles flew past the windows.
      - The sticky neon night rushed past the taxi window.
      - Through the kitchen, past Kochu Maria fast asleep.
      - “Really a wild thing… I can hear her at night—rushing past in the moonlight, always in a hurry.
      - On the way, Sophie Mol learned to recognize the first whiff of the approaching stench of unprocessed rubber and to clamp her nostrils shut until long after the truck carrying it had driven past.
      - Something bobs past in the water and the colors catch his eye.
      - A jeep with a loudspeaker drove past, blaring a Marxist Party song whose theme was Unemployment.
      - They trudged past darter birds on the tops of trees,
        drying their sodden wings spread out like laundry
        against the sky.
      - Beyond the swamp that smelled of still water, they walked past ancient trees cloaked in vines.
  - - - And past the people watching the people watching the people.
      - Past the Audience again (legs this way and that).
      - Past Baby Kochamma.
      - past Baby Kochamma,
      - Past angry Ammu.
      - Past the Tender Buds Nursery School (for Touchables).
      - Past Rahel concentrating through her knees.
      - Past the Audience that had to move its legs again
      - past Rahel (still tilted back),
      - And past the people watching the Class III Airport Workers’ Union token one-day hunger strike.
    - - Past a deepblue beetle balanced on an unbending blade of grass.
      - Past butterflies drifting through the air like happy messages.
      - Past giant spider webs that had withstood the rain and spread like whispered gossip from tree to tree.
      - Past tall anthills congealed in the rain.
      - Past egrets.
    - - Places with detail
        
        past the ration shop that sold rice, sugar and bananas that hung in yellow bunches from the roof.
        
        Past Sophie Mol’s yellow church.
        
        Past the resentful older houses tinged green with envy, cowering in their private driveways among their private rubber trees.
        
        past the yellow church and up the bumpy red road through the rubber trees
      - Places without memory
        
        Past the factory.
        
        Past the Ayemenem Youth Kung Fu Club.
        
        Past the school.
        
        Past the yellow church.
        
        past the bus stop
        
        past the school
    - - Past the lemon squash.
      - Past glass casks of vinegar with corks.
      - Past green mangoes, cut and stuffed with turmeric and chili powder and tied together with twine.
      - Past a heap of banana peels on the floor (preserved for the pigs’ dinner).
      - Past mounds of fresh green peppercorns.
      - Past gunny bags bulging with garlic and small onions
      - Past floating yellow limes in brine that needed prodding from time to time (or else islands of black fungus formed like frilled mushrooms in a clear soup).
      - Past trays of bitter gourd, with knives and colored finger guards.
    - - Past an iron tub of empty bottles floating in soap bubbled water
      - Past the glue-brush.
      - Past the glue.
      - Past the label cupboard full of labels.
- - - - “The whole of human civilization as we know it,” Chacko told the twins, “began only
        two hours ago in the Earth Woman’s life."
      - "A few days ago he
        had tried to, to… to force himself on her niece, she said."
      - A few mornings ago
        she had opened her window (for a Breath of Fresh Air) and caught them red-handed in
        the act of Returning From Somewhere.
    - - "She remembered that long ago she had shown
        Baby Kochamma a copy of her father’s (Baby Kochamma’s grandfather’s) will, in which,
        describing his grandchildren, he had written:"
      - It didn’t matter that the story had begun, because kathakali discovered long ago that
        the secret of the Great Stories is that they have no secrets.
      - "So different from the amused Rumpled Porcupine she had met that long-ago
        Oxford morning at the cafâ."
      - As though long ago someone—a man with rings—had hit her across it.
    - - "Father Mulligan had died four years ago of viral hepatitis, in an ashram north of
        Rishikesh."
      - "A few years ago he sent her a photograph of himself addressing a gathering of middle-class Punjabi widows at a spiritual camp. "