“How you feel, Prof?” “Okay. A bit tired. Frustrated.” “Ja da. Frustrated.” “Over not seeing the Taj Mahal, I mean. I never had opportunity as a young man—and here I’ve been within a kilometer of it twice, once for several days, now for another day . . . and still I haven’t seen it and never shall.” “Just a tomb.” “And Helen of Troy was just a woman.
