[Following the Equator Part 5 by Mark Twain]@TWC D-Link bookFollowing the Equator Part 5 CHAPTER XXXIX 1/27
By trying we can easily learn to endure adversity.
Another man's, I mean. -- Pudd'nhead Wilson's New Calendar. You soon find your long-ago dreams of India rising in a sort of vague and luscious moonlight above the horizon-rim of your opaque consciousness, and softly lighting up a thousand forgotten details which were parts of a vision that had once been vivid to you when you were a boy, and steeped your spirit in tales of the East.
The barbaric gorgeousnesses, for instance; and the princely titles, the sumptuous titles, the sounding titles,--how good they taste in the mouth! The Nizam of Hyderabad; the Maharajah of Travancore; the Nabob of Jubbelpore; the Begum of Bhopal; the Nawab of Mysore; the Rance of Gulnare; the Ahkoond of Swat's; the Rao of Rohilkund; the Gaikwar of Baroda.
Indeed, it is a country that runs richly to name.
The great god Vishnu has 108--108 special ones--108 peculiarly holy ones--names just for Sunday use only.
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