Word: tree
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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Many centuries before a king is born, his tree bursts through the earth as a green finger...
Last week the Royal Laotian Cabinet announced confidently that the King's funeral will take place next October. But before then, the King's tree must be found. As always, it will be a rare sandalwood tree of the first quality, free of rot, and large enough so that it can be hollowed out to take the body of the King in a sitting position. The Minister of Cults has already summoned the nation's provincial governors. In turn, the governors summoned the district and village chiefs. Thus the word was passed to the most remote Laotian...
Searching for the royal tree, sarongclad Laotians, silver-bedecked Meo tribesmen, naked Kha with blowpipes and poison darts move like shadows through the jungle. Black, White and Red Thai pad over the hills and into the deep valleys. "No one is forced to search, but all do," says the Minister of Cults. "By so doing they gain merit in the eyes of Buddha...
...course, some people are naturally conservative; they prefer to avoid taking a position wherever possible. They just don't believe in going out on a limb, when they don't even know the genus of the tree. For these people, the vague generality must be junked and replaced by the artful equivocation, or the art of talking around the point...
...wonderful to drive fast," said Camus gaily, "when one is not driving oneself." At 2 that afternoon, the car sped through the town of Villeneuve-la-Guyard, about 80 miles southeast of Paris. A few minutes later it lurched out of control, hurtled against one tree and smashed into another. When the police arrived, they found Gallimard fatally injured, his wife and daughter unconscious. In the back of the car, whose speedometer had stuck at 150 km. (94 m.p.h.), was the crushed and lifeless body of Albert Camus...