{"id":652,"date":"2009-06-23T22:21:06","date_gmt":"2009-06-23T21:21:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pouringbeans.com\/?p=652"},"modified":"2009-06-23T22:40:13","modified_gmt":"2009-06-23T21:40:13","slug":"the-late-sir-reginald-winston-%e2%80%93-recounting-events-with-winthrop-chalmers-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pouringbeans.com\/archive\/?p=652","title":{"rendered":"The Late Sir Reginald Winston \u2013 Recounting Events with Winthrop Chalmers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Returning from India, still intact despite the incident with the scorpion, and without locating nothing more than hocus pocus stories regarding Bab Nool Yony, we took about writing up our notes nonetheless with the hope that perhaps upon our next visit we may be able to piece together something coherent enabling us to carry on our work. <!--more--><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">I had already resigned myself to the fact that if we were to return we would need to change our approach completely. When Winthrop had initially discussed the expedition with me I wasn\u2019t convinced but the more he told me the deeper my obsession grew. Bab Nool Yony, third prince of the line of Arpaxia, an equally disturbing and hilarious character. The riches, the fame, the worrying large collection of women\u2019s clothing and purple wigs. As previously discussed I was bored with the gentry and their anecdotes about fencing and so, with a bag of minor clothes and few frivolities, I stood waiting in the west wing of Winthrop\u2019s manor. He arrived with only one tiny bag. I asked him where the rest of the equipment was and he assured me what was contained in the bag was all we required.<\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-family: Arial;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">As it happens the bag was empty apart from a pocket watch made of lint. I knew instantly what Winthrop meant; we were going to India for silence, for peace, distancing ourseles from the mundane routine of modern life. The time we had left was gradually disappearing and like a watch made of lint soon it will completely disappear. He always taught me the most important lessons, unlike Padre Pumpinmeyer.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Returning from India, still intact despite the incident with the scorpion, and without locating nothing more than hocus pocus stories regarding Bab Nool Yony, we took about writing up our notes nonetheless with the hope that perhaps upon our next visit we may be able to piece together something coherent enabling us to carry on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-652","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bedtime-stories","category-ian"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pouringbeans.com\/archive\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/652","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pouringbeans.com\/archive\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pouringbeans.com\/archive\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pouringbeans.com\/archive\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pouringbeans.com\/archive\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=652"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/pouringbeans.com\/archive\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/652\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":665,"href":"https:\/\/pouringbeans.com\/archive\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/652\/revisions\/665"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pouringbeans.com\/archive\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=652"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pouringbeans.com\/archive\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=652"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pouringbeans.com\/archive\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=652"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}