...e put strength in his shoulders and knees, and set in his heart the daring of a mosquito, which, though constantly brushed away from a man's skin, sti... ...ushed away from a man's skin, still insists on biting him for the pleasure of human blood." --The Iliad Homer Book I: P... ... was more than a customer but a member of the more affluent class and this by Thai, although not Buddhist standards, was well revered. How swift one'... ...'s encroaching aloneness was purged and thwarted in the retreat engineered by the batons and water cannons of one's linguistic moans. The whore, whose... ...it; although from it, despite its limitations, he was always introduced to people so different than he was. They were the favored ones whose ideas we... ...icemen, who could easily be bribed, were never to be trusted. The favored people did not have everyday to roam the streets like homeless but highly m... ...nalin of bravado. He wanted to confront his fears. Trying to reach for a religion to formulate a rational perspective in the irrational, he argued t... ...d not know. Then he was descending or falling --falling in a diagonal descent on the mosquito's back, falling onto its feelers, and falling from ... ...y Buddhist and Christian practitioners although thoroughly embraced by the Jewish, Moslem, and Hindu world. I'd think it over carefully before exorci...