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...Shrestha admits he had long been haunted by Sobhraj's escape. He later learned that the fugitive?sometimes referred to as the "Serpent"?was suspected of preying on Western backpackers following the hippie trail through Asia in the 1970s. By feigning illness, assuming new identities and even once setting his prison van on fire, Sobhraj escaped jail or evaded arrest in Afghanistan, Thailand, Hong Kong, France, Greece (twice), Turkey and Iran. In addition to the case of the two murdered backpackers in Kathmandu, Sobhraj is also suspected of killing five tourists in Thailand and one in Pakistan. He was acquitted...
...climax of the second book, Chamber of Secrets, he asserts, works as pure Christian allegory. "It's the story of Harry fighting a serpent and overcoming it with the sword of Gryffindor. He is unable to accomplish this by himself and must call for help, which comes from above, most often in the form of the word of truth or a double-edged sword. It's not just a snake he has to overcome but a snake summoned by [the evil wizard] Voldemort's memory. Over and over in these medieval mystery morality plays, it's the memory...
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...like exploding flares, though there was no hiss or smoke, no sparkling arc back to earth. To a cynic like myself, they looked indisputably man-made. But to the believers?gathered in the tens of thousands along the riverbank?this was the breath of the Naga, the mythical serpent of Buddhist lore that many Thais believe haunts the broad reaches of the Mekong in Nong Khai province...
...food, just about everyone is happy to regale you with tales of monster sightings or giant, snaking tracks left in the riverbank's mud. Some locals brandish grainy pictures of what could be anything from a log to a boat, and swear it is evidence of the outsize serpent. And then there's that postcard: ubiquitous and eye-catching, of a band of U.S. service members purportedly stationed in the area in the early 1970s, staggering under the weight of an eight-meter-long, silvery, eellike fish. Locals swear it's genuine...