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In India.
Learning a new symbolmeaning for elephant because all the elephant guns in America are jammed.
Lots of people sleep on the streets here. I paid someone 10 cents to dry my hands today. I did not ask him to; I had little choice.
I am staying in a hotel where outside my window I can see where hundreds of people live in huts made of garbage, sheet metal, spare wood, tarps. It smells like people here in Mumbai. The money for my room could easily feed everyone living in a shack in view for a day or two. (Everyone...hundreds). Some women got a 10 dollar massage in this hotel.
Yesterday two women got a five dollar massage that was so good it gave them orgasms. I did not think that this was possible, but the women are not liars. They are my friends.
I have seen a Synagogue, a Jain Temple, a Hindu Temple, a Mosque, a lost Buddhist Temple, and I have stayed at a YWCA. Very different here, but I am very comfortable. People are people everywhere. I've seen a lot, and I regret all that I do not see. Possibilities and restrictions of possibilities...
(Multi-colored squares of confetti: blowing, floating reds, yellows, oragnes, greens, magentas, whites, blues lifting up, falling down to the dirt street).
The smells here amaze me. People, guidebook writers, have not spent enough time writing of dirt and spit and shit and piss and people and food and exhaust and spice that flow through a nose. Wish I could throw that in people's faces so they could know a city only barely in 2006, partly in 1956, and mostly in 1736 or 1542 or 1298. The biggest city in India: Mumbai.
Learning a new symbolmeaning for elephant because all the elephant guns in America are jammed.
Lots of people sleep on the streets here. I paid someone 10 cents to dry my hands today. I did not ask him to; I had little choice.
I am staying in a hotel where outside my window I can see where hundreds of people live in huts made of garbage, sheet metal, spare wood, tarps. It smells like people here in Mumbai. The money for my room could easily feed everyone living in a shack in view for a day or two. (Everyone...hundreds). Some women got a 10 dollar massage in this hotel.
Yesterday two women got a five dollar massage that was so good it gave them orgasms. I did not think that this was possible, but the women are not liars. They are my friends.
I have seen a Synagogue, a Jain Temple, a Hindu Temple, a Mosque, a lost Buddhist Temple, and I have stayed at a YWCA. Very different here, but I am very comfortable. People are people everywhere. I've seen a lot, and I regret all that I do not see. Possibilities and restrictions of possibilities...
(Multi-colored squares of confetti: blowing, floating reds, yellows, oragnes, greens, magentas, whites, blues lifting up, falling down to the dirt street).
The smells here amaze me. People, guidebook writers, have not spent enough time writing of dirt and spit and shit and piss and people and food and exhaust and spice that flow through a nose. Wish I could throw that in people's faces so they could know a city only barely in 2006, partly in 1956, and mostly in 1736 or 1542 or 1298. The biggest city in India: Mumbai.