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Thoughts on 9 days on the road January 22, 2013

There is a case of a party of miners, buried and shut off from every possibility of knowing the passage of day or night, who told their rescuers that they estimated the time they had spent in darkness, flickering between hope and fear, to be some three days. It had actually been ten. Their high state of suspense might, one would think, have made the time seem longer to them than it actually was, whereas it shrank to less than a third of its objective length. It would appear, then, that under conditions of bewilderment man is likely to under- rather than over-estimate time.

(The Magic Mountain, Thomas Mann)

I’ll start writing soon.  In the meantime, here’s a little guy I found perched on the window sill of a few-century old Jain cave temple at Ellora, trying his best to nibble away at an empty bag of chips.