That day we went to the city

The night before the trip I was seriously inconvenienced during my sleeping period by several mosquitoes making a feast of my blood and their home in my room. At about 5:45 I devised a solution, wrapping the thin bed linen tight around my body like a caterpillar, which finally allowed a few hours of sleep. This was a rather insufficient amount of time.

On coming to, I felt how one mosquito had had the audacity to sting me on the lower lip, grim tidings for the day to come?

I crawled on to the bus and found a nice seat at the back. It wasn’t long till I was merrily drifting in and out of sleep. I remember only a series of sounds and visions: the smell of Timian, the color purple, a side walk in Lithuania. During this time I also found myself in a vast field of cacti expanding seemingly endless in all directions. Needless to say I was puzzled by this. Narendra Modi, God and two other women where there. They were picnicking in a small clearing in the field and had only just sad down, after playing a fun, but somewhat exhausting, game of Croquet. Modi was laying with his head in gods lap, as god was petting his beard he purred like a cat.

When the bus stopped at majestic, we took autos to the offices of M.Bhaktavasala in Gandhi nagar. He was situated in an office of small to medium size. His office desk featured a buzzer with which he could call to his assistance an older gentleman. He would frequently do so, often regarding the location of various articles. He spoke at length about topics including; the role of song and dance in Indian cinema and the intricacies of the geographic sub-divisions of cinema in the subcontinent.

The wall behind him featured, among other paraphernalia, a large collection of books. I remember among them; Winston Churchill, Alexander Dumas, Dickens and a book on Hitchcock written by Francois Truffaut, the title was; “Hitchcock”, of whom I just now seem to recall haven it written on his Gravestone: “-Thus for naughty little boys..”. For lunch I had butter chicken.