Swami Nitty-Gritty phoned me, saying, “Don’t worry, brother, WE’RE looking after her … you know, me and … St. Jude.”

I had a good cry over that one!

“All evil lies in the involuntary unconscious manifestation of men-machines. People act in the interests of good, even when they kill each other. Ideas of good and evil are only permanent in connection with a permanent aim. If a person knows they are asleep and has the aim to awaken, everything that helps this aim is good, everything that hinders it is evil.”

“In the earliest days in the mountains, infection was rare. In the fresh mountain air and on the diet available, men recovered rapidly from serious wounds. Some of the Indian remedies were quite useful, but as we all know, many people simply recover. The mountain men, for example, and western men generally, were in excellent health to begin with.

“Few carried even a pound of excess weight. Most were constantly walking, running, bending, kneeling to set a trap, actively exercising. Their drinking binges were rare, as whiskey was available only in towns, and such bouts with the bottle were often separated by months or even years.”

“Throughout these knockabout years, when he actually was a hobo, the young L’Amour continued to read. He actually found that he could learn better outside of school rather than inside. ‘When I was asked by other kids about dropping out,’ he bragged, ‘I tell them they should drop out only if they have read from fifty to one hundred non-fiction books per year, for fun.’

It actually takes no less than seven lab tests to tell for sure.

A dry cough (no mucus), dry cracked skin on the heels, and a red tongue are general indicators.