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...banks of the Yamuna River. A drop of sweat lies delicately between my eyes, a saree of dirt and exhaust, pleated six times at my waist and draped over my shoulder, enshrouds my body and defends my modesty from the menacing eyes of the dark. And as I lay in bed, immobilized by the heat, with the dissonant smells of sweet roasted corn and cow dung wafting through my open window, I am ham-fisted to find where I end and my environs begin...
...Nights in White Satin - Moody Blues 2. White Wedding -Billy Idol 3. Layla - Derek and the Dominoes 4. Smooth - Santana 5. Broken Wings - Mister Mister 6. Here Comes the Sun - Beatles 7. Lay Lady Lay - Bob Dylan 8. Long Cool Woman - Hollies 9. Billie Jean - Michael Jackson 10. Whiter Shade of Pale - Procol Harum...
...Twain described his early infatuation with the river's beauty at sunset: "A broad expanse of the river was turned to blood; in the middle distance the red hue brightened into gold through which a solitary log came floating, black and conspicuous; in one place a long, slanting mark lay sparkling upon the water; in another the surface was broken by boiling, tumbling rings, that were as many-tinted as an opal...
...Thames like a factory, which in fact it was. But more valuable buildings have been lost to economic boom and proactive aesthetics than were ever ruined by decay and indifference. Nobody tore down the Bankside Power Station because none could agree on a use for its site. It just lay there, an unloved, comatose and grimy princess, waiting for someone to kiss...
...intestines were in the colostomy bag. After a subsequent encounter, the youth wrote, "[A] Sgt. came to me and said to me put shirt in pants, and I told him that I couldn't and he...put me to the ground and told me to lay face down on the ground. And I told the Sgt. that I couldn't that I have on a bag, and he went put me to the ground. He came with his knee in my stomach." In its defense, Wackenhut Corrections says the boy had a number of disciplinary proceedings against him that year...