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74. WALKED A HUNDRED ANDES MOUNTAINS:

I have lived a miserable age - have endured something somehow beyond endurance too - walked a hundred Andes Mountains and noticed birds and vultures hummingbirds and flies and every living thing made better sense to me than me or anyone else for that matter and we put the lights on with flames in little tents and we stayed up nights on rigid stone-topped hills where the only company were the local native girls who had swabs of menstrual blood in their hair and hooped rings in their noses and ears - but no matter for that - and we were their way out of something as much as they were ours : storybooks by the gallon have been written of this stuff and someone's had to read it all whether to children as make believe or to new age gurus as gospel truth - for we flew literally past the ages and through all time we saw spirits in smoke rings and the far sides of our minds we communed with the Heavens and saw Gods and Goddesses too - everything worth to mention and hundreds more and at dawn we worshipped the rising sun the Sun God of All the Osiris of Ever the basis for all religions world-over the primitive side of Mankind's story the great Unknown the great Connector the HE who makes all things real and with all eyes past the East we found all the new directions in places no one else had ever heard : Seriaside Opturu and Megoyna : the spinners were the operators and all the hands were on the walls and the flute players came down from the nearby hills shouting some awful name and playing deathly games - rocks round as balls shot hard into people's foreheads as we watched as they died in rivers and pools of blood - this vicious sport for pygmies the Amazon deathlust for living through death the sanctioned voices of unknown Gods ranting about things without foundation or reality - just beyond the pale of vision sense or sight : I turned to King Minah who was seated beside me and said quite simply "Great Sir take me now from this place - for I am both finished and done" and he nodded apiece and had me carted away in a wagon of lead and gold - airport-bound I was left on the ground and flown back (before I knew) to Cherokee Place and some East River Drive where I stayed for a week drying out coming back to my senses and cleansing my system of all I'd imbibed : but wonders such as this become memories forever and I'd been designated to speak again.