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Chapter 9 - Del gets serious about implementing the UN-DOODOO key and seeks the wisdom of the Orient

      

THE STORY OF DEL - Delete

But where could a stupefied derelict such as he find the required wisdom? Where could he learn the arcane secrets of turning sausages back into pigs?  Easy - in the part of the world famous for its transcendental wisdom: Nepal!


It was always a cinch - almost second nature - for Del to leap to such 'right sounding' yet fanciful conclusions. Having lived on the keyboards of the world, he had read fantastic amounts of fact, fiction and garbage. But in truth, he had exclusively read those parts that for one reason or another the original authors had decided to forward-delete.
So of the three typologies - 'fact, fiction and garbage' - his intellect had mostly been formed by data source #3:

Flapdoodle
Bunkum
Piffle
Phooey
&
Hooey!
Speaking of which: yes, Nepal! Del had to go to Nepal. Nepal was the place. Nepal, Nepal, Nepal!
It was the place with the highest statistical density of wisdom, a 'percipience' so light and airy that after appropriate chanting, clanging of pots, sounding of gongs and blowing of horns, the monks would levitate over the Himalayas and look for two year old kids to be their 'Kunduns,' their Buddha reincarnations.

Wait a minute, wasn't that Tibet?






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