The mystic masseur: a novel by V. S. Naipaul

Author:V. S. Naipaul
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Tags: Fiction:Humor, Political fiction, Satire, General, Literary, Trinidad and Tobago, Trinidadian and Tobagonian (English), Humorous fiction, Mystics, Fiction
ISBN: 9780375707148
Publisher: New York : Vintage Books, 2002.
Published: 2002-01-15T08:34:37.158000+00:00

And at about the same time Ganesh discovered the Hollywood Hindus. The Hollywood Hindus are Hindus who live in or near Hollywood. They are holy, cultivated men who issue frequent bulletins about the state of their soul, the complexities and variations of which are endless and always worth description.

Ganesh was a little annoyed. ‘You think I could do this sort of thing in Trinidad and get away with it?’ he asked Beharry.

‘I suppose, if you really know, you only jealous them.’

‘Man, I could write a book like that every day if I put my mind to it.’

‘Ganesh, you is a big man now. The time come when you must forget other people and think about yourself.’

So he tried to forget the Hollywood Hindus and set about ‘preparing himself ‘, as he said. The process, it soon became clear, was going to take time.

Leela began to complain again. ‘Man, nobody seeing you go think that it have a war going on and that everywhere people making money. The Americans come to Trinidad now, and they giving away work, with all sort of big pay.’

‘Don’t approve of war,’ Ganesh said.

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