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...worry. By the end of the novel, she realizes that Christ was a genius, of course, but no more so than Mohammed or Buddha or Machiavelli, so the best thing to do is go out and get a job. Another heroine (as we learn from her "New Angles on Life notebook") is mildly inspired by a sermon, but finds her salvation in a brass bed with an old friend who happened to be in church that morning. It's good to dismiss it all like that, but don't admit the symbolism--unless it's at the artistic level...
...addorsed tree dryads of the first century A.D. (fig. 2 showing one side) show both the serenity of Indian art and the erotic sensuality. The Buddhists regarded Nirvana as the only aim of life and rejected everything but strict austerity. This quality is evident in the 13th century seated Buddha (fig. 4) from Nepal...
...slowed down to let me off, my Mississippi mentor left me with a last word of etymological mysticism: "Just so you can see some of the connections I'm talkin' about, look at the similarities between the Jewish race, and nigras and the orientals. Look at the words Judah, Buddha, and Voodah." (Voodoo with a heavy southern slur.) "Doesn't that suggest something?" he hinted. "Now you see why I say David Ben-Gurion is a Zen-Buddhist...
...course, the obstacles are enormous. The people of the area are bewilderingly diverse in their language, their history, their geography, their politics, and even their religion-they pay homage not only to Buddha, Jesus and Mohammed, but also to Confucius, Lao-tzu and Zoroaster. Economically, as underdeveloped nations they compete bitterly for markets for their copra and sugar, rice and rubber. India, Pakistan and Burma have shown no interest in the hustle and bustle around them. Indonesia, still in the shakedown stage after its anti-Communist upheaval, is only warily beginning to participate. Cambodia stands aloof, although Premier Sihanouk...
...Kind of Place. Nonetheless, a figure of Johnson's rank is forgiven such lapses, and he was, after all, pratanatipodi, the President (literally, "chairman of the greatest"). He was treated accordingly. At his quarters, overlooking the Temple of the Emerald Buddha, servants brought the President his meals on their knees, performed wais (a bow with the hands pressed together) before him. Cracked a U.S. aide: "This is Johnson's kind of place...