The Chronicle of the World's most fabled Indian
Mushimushtakarajeshmuhumadmeal was a simple man who immigrated to Australia from a diminutive Indian province known as Kashtunkakstahn. Mushimushtakarajeshmuhumadmeal’s place of shelter was a recreational area known as a park; his quaint but unperturbed hut cunningly crafted from twigs and discarded twine. Mushimushtakarajeshmuhumadmeal had an uncanny skill in crafting high quality loincloths and gumnut necklaces, he also had a keen interest in woven baskets made of hair, nevertheless for a number of reasons these were not an immense hit. It was the necklaces and loincloths that Mushimushtakarajeshmuhumadmeal made his measly amount of money from. Experts in South Africa who undertook the task of examining Mushimushtakarajeshmuhumadmeal’s produce announced they were of the utmost quality and vast skill was involved in the assembly of them. Mushimushtakarajeshmuhumadmeal later declined to admit on 60 minutes that he was the best loincloth and gumnut necklace manufacturer to ever grace the surface of the Earth. Always a modest man Mushimushtakarajeshmuhumadmeal said, instead it was the gene Heamoaphrite that was the determining factor for his expertise. At the age of 56 Mushimushtakarajeshmuhumadmeal became senile and incontinent, all speech unfathomable. This was a tragic end to a lover of life and all things natural. He died 2 years, 64 days later, his last words quoted as “If you think you are beaten, you are, If you think you dare not, you don’t; If you want to win but think you can’t it’s almost a cinch you won’t. If you think you’ll lose you’re lost; For out in the world we find success begins with a fellow’s will, it’s all in the state of mind. Life’s battles don’t always go to the stronger and faster man, but sooner or later the man who wins is the man who thinks he can.*” These Days Mushimushtakarajeshmuhumadmeal’s masterpieces can be found in museums around the globe, never to be reproduced again. A memorial plaque has been erected at the position of his residence in the park to serve as a reminder of his greatness.
This was a work of fiction
Mushimushtakarajeshmuhumadmeal: The chronicle of the worlds most fabled Indian © Elliott Benson 2000
*Norman Vincent Peale