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[WRITTEN SIDEWAYS]

It is believed that a man who has been on a journey may have contracted some magic evil from the strangers with whom he is associated. Hence, on returning home, before he is readmitted to the society of his tribe and friends, he has to undergo certain purificatory ceremonies. p 260 Golden Bough

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Notebook started in Feb. 1970

Notes for a book on Benares

from a readers guide to Finnegan's Wake

"Rise and fall and rise again, sleeping and waking, death and resurrection, sin and redemption, conflict and appeasement and above all time itself . .

. . . man's history created by man under the laws of divine providence, proceeds cyclically through three ages divine, heroic and human. After a period of reflux the cycle begins again . . .

divine age - produces religion and family

heroic age - an aristocratic age of lords and vassals wars and duels produces marriage

human age - produces cities, laws civil obedience popular government is distinguished by burial