Saturday, December 30, 1995

Puri, the eighty-first day,



Rest day after the efforts of the previous day. Doing nothing is pleasant. "Why won’t we go to the beach?
It seemed to me that the French were the only ones who use the word "Baba cool" for “Hippie” and I had often wondered why. I got the answer today. A "Baba" is a kind of Indian spiritual master, usually with shoulder-length curly hair and whose ambition is to found his own ashram. By extension, a person full of kindness, generous and able to give some alms to beggars will be qualified by them as "Baba." "Hey Baba! One rupee! " is heard everywhere. Then just to be "cool" is necessary to become a "Baba cool"!
I met two Germans (again!). Very funny. The first is very blond, very muscular, very tall, very little educated, after all, very German, and a traffic cop in a small village. The second is the opposite, except that it comes from the same village, and is a "computer freak". It's a very original and unexpected combination - that sex does not even seem to explain - which I believe can only exist between Germans. I love them also for that!

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