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As they were walking, a beggar came up, holding his hand out and crying, Baksheesh! Baksheesh!Mike kept on going but Mitchell stopped. Digging into his pocket, he pulled out twenty paise and placed it in the beggar's dirty hand.Mike said, I used to give to beggars when I first came here. But then I realized, it's hopeless. It never stops.Jesus said you should give to whoever asks you, Mitchell said.Yeah, well, Mike said, obviously Jesus was never in Calcutta.

Jeffrey Eugenides

As they were walking, a beggar came up, holding his hand out and crying, Baksheesh! Baksheesh!Mike kept on going but Mitchell stopped. Digging into his pocket, he pulled out twenty paise and placed it in the beggar's dirty hand.Mike said, I used to give to beggars when I first came here. But then I realized, it's hopeless. It never stops.Jesus said you should give to whoever asks you, Mitchell said.Yeah, well, Mike said, obviously Jesus was never in Calcutta.

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About Jeffrey Eugenides

Jeffrey Kent Eugenides (born March 8, 1960) is an American author. He has written numerous short stories and essays, as well as three novels: The Virgin Suicides (1993), Middlesex (2002), and The Marriage Plot (2011). The Virgin Suicides served as the basis of the 1999 film of the same name, while Middlesex received the 2003 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in addition to being a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award, the International Dublin Literary Award, and France's Prix Médicis.