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...marines, well briefed on good-neighborly conduct, went over big with Chileans at last week's presidential inauguration. At outdoor parties and at the huge fiesta in Santiago's Plaza Bulnes, sailors smiled at señoritas. In Valparaiso, a U.S. gob took up a blind beggar's guitar, played it to a huge audience for two hours, turned over a mendicant's fortune to the beggar...
Along the montaña, the eastern slope, maybe oil would be discovered. The explorer Humboldt spoke of Peru as "a beggar sitting on a golden throne...
Then in 1921, a loinclothed mendicant with long, matted hair and body smeared with ashes turned up in Dacca. Rumor said he was the dead Kumar, and the tenants rushed to hear the beggar's story. Roy (if it was the Kumar) said the brother-in-law had poisoned him in Darjeeling. As he lay, unconscious but not dead, on his funeral pyre, a great rain had revived...
...sister and aged mother came to see the beggar who claimed to be their relative. They gave him a good bath and looked him over in the sunlight. Yes, there were the old scars. There was the Kumar's broken tooth, his birthmark and the familiar scales of the family skin disease on his feet. Reluctantly they claimed the beggar as their...
...Oedipus himself-to Oedipus who, foredoomed to commit atrocious crimes, has despite all precautions unknowingly murdered his father Laius and married his mother Jocasta. When the last nail of proof is driven solidly home, Oedipus, in an agony of guilt and horror, blinds himself and goes forth, a beggar, to roam the world...