"It's a mutual, joint-stock world, in all meridians." -- QueeQueg in Moby Dick
This is my new favorite quote.
While here in India, late at night, unable to sleep due to the mefloquine we've been taking for malaria, I've been reading classic novels on my Palm Pilot that are freely available on the internet due to their copyrights expiring long ago. I've gotten through the likes of War of the Worlds, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, and Frankenstein. Now I'm working my way through Moby Dick or The Whale.
I promised pictures. Here come several.
The south side of the Victoria Memorial in Kolkata, West Bengal
A panoramic shot of Kolkata and its Esplanade from the Northern entrance to the Victoria Memorial
Jennifer and Rock taking a horse-drawn carriage ride around the Esplanade in Kolkata.
A picture of Rock on top of the Valluvar Kottam memorial in Chennai, Tamil Nadu
Jennifer at the bottom of the Valluvar Kottam memorial
This is my new favorite quote.
While here in India, late at night, unable to sleep due to the mefloquine we've been taking for malaria, I've been reading classic novels on my Palm Pilot that are freely available on the internet due to their copyrights expiring long ago. I've gotten through the likes of War of the Worlds, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, and Frankenstein. Now I'm working my way through Moby Dick or The Whale.
I promised pictures. Here come several.
The south side of the Victoria Memorial in Kolkata, West Bengal
A panoramic shot of Kolkata and its Esplanade from the Northern entrance to the Victoria Memorial
Jennifer and Rock taking a horse-drawn carriage ride around the Esplanade in Kolkata.
A picture of Rock on top of the Valluvar Kottam memorial in Chennai, Tamil Nadu
Jennifer at the bottom of the Valluvar Kottam memorial
posted by Rock at 11:33 AM
2 Comments:
You're reading novels on a Palm Pilot! You must have good eyes!!
Great pix - great narrative. Love the blog and visiting India vicariously w you guys. Hey, if I'd known you were so interesting, I wd have hung out more w you in Cambridge.
Did you celebrate Thanksgiving?
Love, Bev Cooper
Hi Bev,
Rock to the missionaries to Pizza Hut in Chennai for Thanksgiving. In Hyderabad I spent the day working and making multiple trips to the bathroom with a bug I'd gotten! I was, however, grateful that this was only the second time I've gotten sick since being here, and I took the right meds immediately so it wasn't too bad.
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