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Shantaram (gregory David Roberts)
Jet fighters near the Afghan border
‘Khaled! Yeah! Are you okay?’ ‘Sure. Jet fighters! Fuck me! Two of them. Not far overhead. A hundred feet, man, no more than that. Fuck! They were really smashing up the sound barrier! What a noise!’ ‘Were they Russians?’ ‘No, I don’t think so. Not this close to the border…
The standing babas
THE STANDING BABAS were men who’d taken a vow never to sit down, or lie down, ever again, for the rest of their lives. They stood, day and night, forever. They ate their meals standing up, and made their toilet standing up. They prayed and worked and sang standing up. They even…