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clay some, a mould image, of Shiva + Parvati sitting side by side. Another of Parvati standing full-length next to a somewhat higher column of clay representing an erect penis, the lingam of Shiva the lingam part being modeled by hand somewhat realistically on the actual penis.

Sept 3, 70

note from Labyrinth by Borges p 235

"Non-recognition of the sacred animal and its opprobrious or accidental death at the hands of the people are traditional themes in Chinese literature."

p 236 - "The fact is that every writer creates his own precursors. His work modified our conception of the past, as it will modify the future."

p 12 "To esteem religions and philosophical ideas for their authentic value even for what is magical or marvellous in their content . . ."

". . . to suppose in advance that the quantity of fables or metaphors of which man's imagination is capable is limited but that this small number of inventions can be everything to everyone."

p 175

". . . everything which can happen to a man, from the instant of his birth until his death, has been pre-ordained by him. Thus every negligence is deliberate, every chance encounter an appointment, every humiliation a penitence, every failure a mysterious victory, every death a suicide. There is no more skillful consolation than the idea that we have chosen out own misfortunes; this individual teleology reveals a secret order and prodigiously confounds us with the divinity."

"We Hindus only tolerate or endure changes, but never sanction them." Chaudhuri - To live or not to live p 132

118

The image of Parvati and Siva are thrown into the Ganga without ceremony. The worship part is over. They are dumped as one would throw an orange peel out the window. It has fulfilled its purpose; divinity has been served. The shell is no longer needed.

Sept 6, 70

Etruscan Places - Lawrence p 123

"Why has mankind had such a craving to be imposed upon? Why this lust after imposing creeds, imposing deeds, imposing buildings, imposing language, imposing works of art? The thing becomes an imposition and a weariness at last. Give us things that are alive and flexible, which won't last too long and become an abstraction and a weariness."

p 143

". . . .the people may be in contact, embracing or laying hands on one another. But there is no soft flow of touch. The touch does not come from the middle of the human being. It is merely a contact of surfaces, and a juxtaposition of objects."

p 149

"the people are not initiated into the cosmic ideas, nor into the awakened throb of more vivid consciousness. Try as you may, you can never make the mass of men throb with full awakenedness. They cannot be more than a little aware. So you must give them symbols, ritual and gesture, which will fill their bodies with life up to their own full measure."

Sept 6, 70

Labyrinths p 190. Borges

"Outside, the predictable rows of one -and two story houses had taken on the abstract appearance that is theirs at night when darkness and silence simplify them."