Travels in India with too many books

Today we explored the excellent Meheranger Fort in Jodhpur. The fort is built on a craggy mountain overlooking the city, a sea of mostly blue buildings. The views from the fort are excellent, and it has a nice accompanying audio-guide, which you can play as you feel when you walk around.

Just before we left, we decided to try the palm reader. Naturally sceptical but willing for once to indulge just to see how convincing he was, I let Emily go first. It seemed fairly convincing, in a superficial way. Emily wrote down the time of day, date, and place she was born, as asked. I asked him if, since I couldn't remember what time of day I was born, could he still read my palm? Of course, he said yes. He then rattled off an analysis that sounded largely similar to what he told Emily. Except that the stuff that was different, was totally wrong! I won't reveal exactly what for fear of broadcasting major personality flaws to anyone that might read this, although those who know me would probably agree.

He rarely offered any critical or negative points anyway, which is of course partly how these things work since people are more easily convinced by flattery. Some of it was a bit too obvious though, like the question/assertion "someone in your family has had allergies or cancer?" This was asked of both of us.

The point is that after Emily, it seemed pretty plausible, but after we had a chance to compare each others, it was clearly garbage. The funniest thing was though that during my reading, he kept falling asleep mid-sentence!