Word: caving
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...following mythological paths today, unconsciously and without design. The hippie who leaves society and goes off to a commune, for example, is being guided by a mythological map of withdrawal and adventure laid down by Christ in the desert, the Buddha at Bodh-Gaya, and Mohammed in his cave of meditation at Mount Hira...
Among the strange markings on the cave walls, Sales discovered a recurring theme: a triangle marked by a deep cut running from one apex to the center. To Sales, the triangle is obviously a symbol for the female. The same symbol, he recalls, had been observed on the jewelry of the Amazons by Father Caspar de Carvajal, a chronicler of Orellana's expedition. At least one of the cave triangles has a smaller triangle carved inside it; Sales speculates that it might represent pregnancy. Another triangle, adorned with two stripes, might have symbolized a tribal leader. Still others...
...pleasant looks For Liller, Smithies. Dunn, and Crooks In Mather House, we'll throw and party For Burriss Young and Skid von State Toast Allen Ginsberg, Peter Orloys Thomas Schelling and Henry Rosovsky We bring glad tidings from afar To Michael Walzer. Judith Shklar, Willard V. Quine and Stanley Cave Jean Mayer, Roger R.D. Revelle, Peter Elder. Martin Kilson William Alfred, J.Q. Wilson Robert Lowell, Robert Kiely. Lawrence Kohlberg. Lawrence Wylie jeremy Sabloff, Jeffrey Brian. J.P. Russo, J.J. Lingane, Albert Sacks and Albert Lord, John K. Fairbank. John M. Ward. Paul A. Freund and Paul A. Cantor. Francis...
...rider becomes the penitent, shaves his head and commits himself to the task of digging a tunnel out of the cave. Because he is bigger and stronger than all the prisoners, he can climb out of the cave. With the dwarf women who took care of him on his back, he goes into the town to collect money by begging for supplies to dig the tunnel. The town is an exaggerated stereotype of a Hollywood Western town; boorish, fat old women in 1890's dresses, who ooh and aah as they watch two men kill each other; black slaves branded...
...tunnel is finished in the fourth section, and the crippled come running out of their cave toward the town and are met by a barrage of rifle fire. When the penitent arrives they are all dead. The townspeople shoot him also but he refuses to die and picks up a gun and again, as the avenger, kills all the townspeople. The only survivors are his dwarf wife, their newborn son, and his priest son. The penitent pours kerosene over himself and self-immolates, leaving the other three to ride off into the desert, and keep civilization going (or perhaps star...