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Please find out the name of a novel about traveling in Asia and doing drugs.
The novel is set some time in the 20th century.
The protagonist is male, is blind in one eye, and has studied some medicine, but is not a medical professional. I think the protagonist was french, but I could be wrong about this.
The protagonist first spends some time working for a gun smuggler and then goes traveling. His first notable stop is in Asia minor, where he encounters the famous arabic hospitality. I don't know the order of events/countries visited after that, but he later spends a lot of time in India. The protagonist's altered thought processes due to drug use are described with a good amount of detail.
Two random scenes that I remember: at some point the protagonist was arrested for the alleged theft of a camera, but police neglected to seize a different camera that he was carrying, so he breaks it open and uses the wires inside to pick the lock to his handcuffs and escape. At another point, the protagonist is tripping on LSD outdoors at night, realizes that he is lost, and remembers long-forgotten details of navigational astronomy to orient himself. But then he at once realizes that if he'd examined the horizon more minutely, he would have seen the place where he wanted to go.
The novel is set some time in the 20th century.
The protagonist is male, is blind in one eye, and has studied some medicine, but is not a medical professional. I think the protagonist was french, but I could be wrong about this.
The protagonist first spends some time working for a gun smuggler and then goes traveling. His first notable stop is in Asia minor, where he encounters the famous arabic hospitality. I don't know the order of events/countries visited after that, but he later spends a lot of time in India. The protagonist's altered thought processes due to drug use are described with a good amount of detail.
Two random scenes that I remember: at some point the protagonist was arrested for the alleged theft of a camera, but police neglected to seize a different camera that he was carrying, so he breaks it open and uses the wires inside to pick the lock to his handcuffs and escape. At another point, the protagonist is tripping on LSD outdoors at night, realizes that he is lost, and remembers long-forgotten details of navigational astronomy to orient himself. But then he at once realizes that if he'd examined the horizon more minutely, he would have seen the place where he wanted to go.
