Tamils overwhelmingly pushed their children towards science and engineering disciplines. As a result, hardly anyone studied Tamil literature, and the ...ield suffered a serious lack of scholarship. Tamil literature is one of the oldest in the world — of languages still spoken, only Greek and Chinese have as ancient a canon — but few of Tony’s relatives had ever studied it, even those who had gone to school in Sri Lanka. Most knew far more about Shakespeare than Shankara.Tony grew up with this. It smelled like bad cheese, sox, sweat, bong water, and sperm. He was 39 years old.Bob Blobluto aimed the spit valve at the end of the slide of his Salvation Army BB flat contrabass trombone at the “Hills Brothers” coffee can on the floor, depressed the spit valve and blew into the instrument. A stream of spit splished into the nearly full coffee can.Bob Blobluto knew he should call Richard Widemouth and tell him the can was full. Bob Blobluto figured he would jack off soon. He marveled at the. All I have to do is find another investor and I'll get you guys your money." Look Alex, I already pulled too many strings to extend you this far. Its been four months since your last full payment and you only sent fifty bucks two months ago. I can't risk loosing my job over this. I'm sorry I really am."Alex shook his bald head letting the information sink in. "I understand Mark I don't want to get you into any trouble. Listen I just threw an add out to a few hotels to take tourists out for some. TV is also a terrible thing. Watching too many police dramas teaches you how many bad things can happen in the middle of the night while everyone is sleeping.Something was wrong and my instincts screamed at me to hide. But hiding wasn’t an option – not if my family was in danger. My first problem was that I had no clue what the danger was. Maybe it was fire. I sniffed the air – searching for any smell of smoke. Nothing!Heart still pounding, I crept along the hallway and into the kitchen. It was.