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Until he and his party crossed the border, a thick, unseasonable wall of cloud covered the eastern Himalayas, hampering pursuit. The next morning, in an abrupt change, which the normally cool-headed London Times suggested might be due to the mystic powers of Tibet's lamas, the clouds dramatically lifted...
...MYSTIC MASSEUR (215 pp.)-V.S. Naipaul-Vanguard...
...story concrete mansion in Fuente Grove, Trinidad, Mystic Ganesh Ramsumair, B.A., sat in the lavatory pondering his future. When he plucked nervously at the toilet paper, a cunning mechanism tripped, and a music box tinkled out Yankee Doodle Dandy. In that moment of revelation, the book that was to secure Ganesh's fame was born. He thought of the title later: Profitable Evacuation...
...book: 101 Questions and Answers on the Hindu Religion. ("Q. What is Hinduism? A. Hinduism is the religion of the Hindus. Q. Why am I a Hindu? A. Because my parents and grandparents were Hindus.") Eventually Ganesh stumbles on his true mission: a career as a masseur and mystical Hindu visionary. He discards his Western clothes for the traditional dhoti and koortah, nails a sign to his mango tree reading "GANESH, Mystic...
Almost nothing is known of Bosch's life except that he was a member of a semi-monastic lay community, lived in The Netherlands in a house overlooking the marketplace of 's Hertogenbosch, married, and died in 1516. He was undoubtedly an ascetic, probably a mystic, possibly an astrologer...