I Think I'm in Love...

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Okay, so I know I'm in love with Ethiel Chelymore Perpetual Zighe Ndaiya, but I just think I might be in love with this country India as well...

Calcutta is madness; madness heaped upon madness upon madness; insanity and wildlife and blaring horns; the place is a bustling, noisy, assault on the senses; an urban jungle, a human jungle, a jungle jungle; we saw more of the new and strange and inexplicable in our first day than I could write about in ten; people, people everywhere; a celebration of poverty, such exquisite poverty and dereliction; filth fills the air and so does noise and the unexpectedly sweet and pleasant smells of perfume and spices; people jostle and shove and ask way too many questions and they all sound like they're shouting at you because they're every one of them deaf; things are cheap but the only stuff worth buying is the food, and goddamn is the food worth buying; give those beggars a rupee, dance to that music, scoop the daal with your fingers, and hold your wallet tight.

We've only just arrived in this place India, but we'll be crawling through for a while and I think we're really gonna enjoy it.

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