Pico Iyer, travel writer, found dead.

Pico Iyer dies from a blocked glottis. He was 51 years of age.

Possibly the most intelligent travel writer in the history of the Universe, with the exception possibly of Salman Rushdie, Pico Iyer succumbed today to an extreme from of hyperprecocitentiousness while performing a fusion of vajrayana tantra and sushi rolling in his California home in Santa Barbara.

The condition was fatal as the extreme combination of bodily contortion and fish ingestion led to a blocked glottis. Mr. Iyer was 51 years of age.

In an interview shortly after his death, Pico Iyer issued the following musing on his position in the afterlife possibly related to his recently published book about the Dalai Lama:

“Clearly, the big challenge for me was that so much was known and so much has been done and brought into the world very powerfully about the Dalai Lama. What new is there to say?”

He will be sorely missed by those also confused about where they actually are at any given moment…

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