The Story of Phil Terry, the Tooth Photographer
In the upmarket locality of Hauz Khas, Delhi, there is a palatial residence with a front lawn, large balconies and air-conditioning in every room. Behind it lived Phil Terry in an unventilated ground floor apartment. Phil Terry was born in South Africa, of rich parents running a very successful toothpaste company. Disillusioned with the ways of businessmen, he robbed his dad of half a million rands to study photography in India. At his son’s breaking away with the money, old Terry had a minor heart attack. The half a million rands was stashed away in cash to install a new ultra-high tech artificial pacemaker for his heart. He had recently searched it out on the internet and had decided to buy it on the black market. The pacemaker had the ability to dynamically control heart rate during intense excitement such as during sexual arousal, in order to improve performance. His heart’s native pacemaker had always been lagging behind from a very young age. It was a setback for t...