“the English explorer Richard Burton told the story of an Englishman finding his new wife unconscious on the marital bed, having chloroformed herself. She had pinned a note to her nightdress which read: 'Mama says you're to do what you like.” SexVictoriansKama Sutra Book:A Strange Kind of Paradise: India Through Foreign Eyes Source: A Strange Kind of Paradise: India Through Foreign Eyes
“a good traveller has no fixed plans, and is not intent on arriving" Taoist dictum quoted by Sam Miller” IndiaTravel WritingTaoist Book:A Strange Kind of Paradise: India Through Foreign Eyes Source: A Strange Kind of Paradise: India Through Foreign Eyes