the English explorer Richard Burton told the story of an Englishman finding his new wife unconscious on the marital bed, having chloroformed herself. She had pinned a note to her nightdress which read: ‘Mama says you’re to do what you like.

the English explorer Richard Burton told the story of an Englishman finding his new wife unconscious on the marital bed, having chloroformed herself. She had pinned a note to her nightdress which read: ‘Mama says you’re to do what you like.

– Sam Miller –

A Strange Kind of Paradise: India Through Foreign Eyes

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