Thursday 13 June 2013

The Visitor - Roald Dahl

The author was surprised and at the same time excited when he received a large wooden case filled with diaries written by his fictitious Uncle Oswald. These diaries contained stories of his amorous adventures. All the twenty-eight volumes were so interesting that the author read all of them.


The author wanted to publish all the stories. But that would have led him into a legal mess. However, his lawyer told him that the Sinai Desert story was safer than the other stories that contained women of Oswald's past.


Oswald's car broke down, when the fan belt of his car got damaged while he is on a trip to collect scorpions for his collection. A Rolls Royce arrived carrying the rich Mr Aziz, a rich man, who invited him to spend a night as a guest in his house. He took Oswald to his house which looked like one of those castles from Grimm's or Andersen's fairy tales. On his way Aziz told Oswald that he lived with his beautiful wife and daughter in this secluded place to protect them from other men and because he loved the desert.


On his way in he kept thinking about how Prince Oswald would the princess from her jealous father, king Aziz.

But when he saw the wife, he was so dazzled, that he let  go his planning pf rescuing the princess. However, he hadn't met the princess yet. When he did, he made up his mind that he would seduce both of them. 


At night, while he was in bed, he was relieved to hear the door knob turning slowly, a noise he was so familiar with.


The pitch black darkness made it impossible to guess if it was the mother or the daughter. So he decided to to guess it by the way she did it with him, but in vain. Sometimes she was an experienced woman, sometimes as innocent as a child. So he bit her passionately on her neck thinking he would recognize the person the next day. But he was shocked and sensed some sort of conspiracy against him, for both of them had a scarf carefully worn around the neck.



It was time for Oswald to leave and Aziz dropped him in the gasoline station. It was then that Aziz revealed the original reason for his living in that place. He had an elder daughter who had acute leprosy.  She didn't come out of her room when guests arrived. But he assured Oswald, "Dear fellow, you mustn't alarm yourself like this. You have to have the most  intimate contact with the person in order to catch it" !!!!

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