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Pastimes : Desire And Grief -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?


To: Sam Citron who wrote (1182)1/15/2003 2:42:19 AM
From: HG  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 1595
 
You've probably seen more of India than *I* have !

<<<A marble shrine to a departed wife that took 22 years to build...amid a sea of poverty...>>>

Not to mention the fact that Shah Jehan chopped the hands off the artisians so they'd never build the likes of it for any other king !

<<<I wept for the lovesick emperor and I wept for my first love, a sixteen year old poetess from Queens, NY>>>>

I've done the same practically every moonlit night i was there. I'd lie down on the cool marble floors, gazing into the night skies and beyond and weep for Mumtaz Mahal, Shah Jehan, and my latest crush. The gems twinkled on the dome and the walls meanwhile...

<<<took Modern Hinduism from an aging BHU professor (Mehta) at Harvard Divinity School>>>

Ahhh....the extremes! Here I am, currently studying Greek Mythology and Literature! I can feel a trip to Greece coming up.

And before i chucked my job for good, I did my bit in helping to develop the western economy - so there !