The Sound of Snow's Cultures Colliding

Last Thursday I went to a workshop in Chicago. Before the conference I found a cafe to work in on the campus of Loloya University Chicago. After working for a while I took a break to read a book. It was then that I realized that I was a theoretical physicist reading a book about an Indian spiritualist who rejected his role as the Theosophical messiah in a cafe whose walls were covered with pictures of the Pope.