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These sessions proved humbling. "You are asleep," the Zen master would say, "you are snoring." Then later, "If ever you succeed in waking up a bit, be careful that it doesn't go to your head." The author does not reveal his koan - to do so would be extremely bad form - but it might have been one of those now familiar to Westerners: "Show me the face you had before your parents were born." He also does not say specifically that he solved his koan, although to have done so in a year and a half would have been...
Pets and Guests. Surrounded by four German shepherds, five cats and two birds, Colleen and her two sons by Scott live in South Salem, along with a housekeeper and assorted transient and semiresidential house guests. Some of the latter arrive at night while their hostess is asleep and greet her at breakfast, which she always prepares for the boys, even if she then returns to bed until 3 p.m. Will Dewhurst's new post-Moon status affect all this? "At 49, with nearly three decades in the theater," she says, "being called a star doesn't have...
...conceits is that anyone who has been asleep for two centuries will probably have to grow up all over again. This gives Allen an opportunity to do a zany turn as a toddler set loose in the operating room where he has been revived. Later, he discovers that all the servants in his cowardly new world are robots (the ones assigned to homosexuals even lisp). To escape from the security police (whose ray gun, incidentally, is always blowing up on them, the spirit of the CIA being immortal), he disguises himself as one of the robots. This bit becomes especially...
...Futurist H.G. Wells. In his 1906 novel In the Days of the Comet, the earth was enveloped in a mysterious green gas from a comet's tail just as war broke out between England and France. The vapors had so beneficent an effect that the combatants fell asleep for three hours, awoke to a world without war and began building a Utopia of socialism and love. In contrast, there is the bleak view of Psychologist turned Amateur Geophysicist Immanuel Velikovsky. In his bestselling 1950 book Worlds in Collision-which is regarded as gospel by many mystics but as science...
Harvard Epworth concludes the fall's Rossellini series with Socrates, in the middle of which I once fell asleep. But wake up for that hemlock scene...