Before I left Japan, in the spring of 1968, I went on a farewell excursion with my Tokyo girlfriend, a beautiful, delicate, porcelain creature…
After a two-week trip from Vladivostok, Soviet Russia, on the Trans-Siberian Railway, I fetched up in Helsinki, Finland, without a kopek to my name.…
In the year 1966, I spent my twenty-third birthday on a truck crossing the yellow plains of the Punjab. My happenstance companions: three other…
Now when I try to conjure my essence as a young man, I see myself waking up one morning to the overpowering odor of…
