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Squirting colored water at passersby as Holi approaches in
Brindavan. Photo by John Hawley.crumpled pages of my notebooks are blank, save for a few declining diagonals and
undulating scrawls. Certain steamy scenes remain in memory, nevertheless. There
was one great throng of villagers watching an uplifted male dancer with padded
crotch writhe in solitary states of fevered passion and then onanism, then join in a
remote pas de deux with a veiled female impersonator in a parody of pederasty, and