My Kingdom for a Horse
Volume 1, Chapter 22
June 08, 1995.
After the morning program I went with Sri Prahlada into Tashkent to buy a few necessities. I was looking for a tube of insect repellent! We went to the biggest market where the upper class people shop. Shopping in the market was not easy, for the reason that everyone who saw us stopped out of curiosity to speak to us. They were polite and respectful, but their many questions made it impossible for us to do any shopping! After one hour we had made it only twenty metres into the store. The products in the market looked like something out of the 1950′s in America, and I couldn’t even find insect repellent. What I would give for some good repellent! I rememberd the king in Shakespear’s “Richard III”, who falling from his horse in the crucial battle for his throne cried out, “A horse! A horse! My kingdom for a horse!”