Journey of a Lifetime
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Alan Whicker. Journey of a Lifetime
Alan. Whicker. Journey of A Lifetime
Table of Contents
UNKNOWN PLACES FIT FOR EAGLES AND ANGELS
1 THERE’S BEEN A CHANGE OF MANAGEMENT
2 A TALK WITH SOMEONE WHO’S NOT TREMBLING
3 TWO LHASA APSOS AND A COUPLE OF PANTECHNICONS
4 CITY OF DREADFUL JOY
5 RELIEVING PATIENTS OF MANY POUNDS—ONE WAY OR THE OTHER
6 RANDOLPH: AS RUDE TO AMBASSADORS AS HE WAS TO WAITERS
7 NO ONE CARED ENOUGH
8 STILL NO DEAL WITH THE DEVIL
9 IN AMERICA’S SMARTEST SOCIAL RESORT ONLY THE LONELINESS GETS WORSE
10 YOU DIDN’T LOOK LIKE THAT IN HELLO!
11 IN MEXICO DEATH KNOCKS MORE OFTEN AND MUST MORE FREQUENTLY BE ADMITTED
12 EASY TO TEACH WOMEN TO SHOOT, HARDER TO TEACH THEM TO KILL
13 A POM WHO’S MADE GOOD— IF THAT’S THE WORD
14 A MOST SIGNIFICANT PINNACLE OF CORAL
15 THAT’S FOR THE RELEVANT DEMON-GIANT TO WORRY ABOUT
16 ALL THE TIME YOU HAVE A SENSE OF IMPENDING DISASTER
17 I’VE ALWAYS WISHED I HAD A BETTER PERSONALITY
18 THEY FEED THE PIGS ON PASSION FRUIT, THE SHEEP ON WILD PEACHES
19 TROUBLED SPIRITS, NEVER QUITE COMFORTABLE IN THEIR SKINS
20 I DON’T MIND A BEATING PROVIDED IT’S BEDSTAKES AFTERWARDS
21 THEY LIVE IN BAREFOOT POVERTY— AND NEVER SEE A MAN
22 A FEW LEFT BEHIND WHEN THE TIDE RAN OUT
23 NO MONEY, NO ENGLISH— AND NO TROUSERS
24 I AWAITED THE STRETCHER-BEARERS, BLEEDING QUIETLY
25 A RATHER SMALL UTRILLO
26 THIRTY BODYGUARDS FOR DINNER
27 THE RIGHT INTERESTS: LADIES, HORSE-RACING— AND TAKING THE LOCALS FOR A RIDE
28 BACKSTAGE AT THE ROYAL PALACE
29 NEVER A FRIENDLY ARMOURED DIVISION AROUND WHEN YOU NEED ONE
30 THE PARTY’S OVER— IT’S TIME TO CALL IT A DAY
INDEX
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
Copyright
About the Publisher
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For Valerie, of course—who retraced every step
with me and made each one happy…
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When a peasant dies, before being placed in his coffin he may be dressed in his best clothes—if he has any—and seated at a table with food and a lighted cigarette between his lips or, if a woman, a clay pipe. When friends and neighbours arrive the feasting and dancing of the wake begins. Although by law the corpse is supposed to be buried within twenty-four hours, decomposition is often allowed to set in. This ensures that sorcerers will not dig him up and make a zombie, a work slave, out of him. The heavy stone slabs with which Haitians cover their graves are added insurance that the dead will not rise to slave as zombies for the rest of time.
Papa Doc angrily denied to me that he was a houngan, a voodoo priest—or even a follower of Baron Samedi, the most powerful and dreaded god in the voodoo pantheon. Baron Samedi personified death itself. He was always dressed in black and wore dark glasses. The President’s choice of wardrobe may not have been accidental.
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