Word: demigods
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Nicholas Roerich, demigod to many an esthete in the U. S., South America, Russia and the European capitals and to many a monk and nomad of Central Asia, returned to Manhattan last week. With him was his son George, Harvard orientalist. More than four years they have spent ranging through the mountains and plateau deserts of Tibet, studying peoples, religions, archaeology, terrain. Explorer Roerich had painted mystically-panoramas, portraits, and haze-curtained lines of his own imagining. At Darjeeling, India, where his party recuperated from mountain rigors (for five months once they were beleaguered at 40° below zero), dark...
...ceases to be the hermit of the high place; as soon as he begins to share the whims and fancies of mortality; as soon as he begins to take sides and see his characters as mouthpieces of his merely temporal cogitations, he ceases to be the climbing demigod, becomes the plodding propagandist. J.A.T...
...same large evening. They marry and proceed to Paris?varying cocaine with heroin when the first begins to pall?and, after a lurid continental honeymoon, return to England and sink into the nethermost hell of the drug-user. From this they are rescued by an extraordinary swami-plus-demigod, yclept King Laions, who removes them to the island of Telepylus?a sort of Marie Correllian Abbey of Theleme?where they are finally made to cure themselves. A gaudy, wholly incredible penny-dreadful...