India, April 9 -- I stopped going to mosque. i no longer joined in worship. i never said my prayers before bed. Sato Reang eats with his left hand - so stupid - and barges in where he pleases, without calling out a greeting. If I was feeling lazy, I'd just piss on a banana tree, and I wouldn't wash myself off after.

No lightning struck me like a fire whip from the beyond. No earthquake came to knock my house down. No dog lunged out of nowhere to sink its teeth into my calf. Sato Reang eats his fill. He laughs heartily at the craziest jokes. He sleeps soundly, like a felled tree trunk, and wakes up fresh-faced and shining. Of course he occasionally suffers from some small annoyance, like an itchy ass-hole, but that's easily fixed with che...