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...equality principle isn't from the French Revolution or Karl Marx," he says, "but from the Buddha." Though this is largely rhetoric, Sihanouk has so cultivated his clergy that Cambodian monks have voluntarily pitched into his public-works projects, and help build country roads, bridges, dig wells...
...Francisco, creates polychrome assemblages straight out of Spike Jones and his City Slickers. The iridescent blue hand was his starting point in Charm; he then kept adding things until, says he, "it has a whole world in it." Why paint it a profusion of colors? "I dig painting too," says Hudson. "What the sculpture can't say, the paint...
...peasants. "My children," he informs them in a sanctimonious monotone, "I bring you tidings of great sorrow and good fortune. During the last war, a man was murdered and a treasure hidden on the land you own." The peasants, quivering with avarice, scuttle off to the appointed spot and dig up the treasure: an iron casket crammed with smoldering brilliants. "Worth at least six million lire," the bishop announces appreciatively. "But the church has no interest in them. By the terms of the murderer's will, they belong to you-on one condition: you must faithfully offer...
...implored, "D'ya dig?" I guess I didn't. A draft was blowing in from the window. There was nothing erotic in the moment. "Why don't you take off your clothes?" Allen asked me. It was no overture; merely a challenge and a joke. I felt no closer to the naked Ginsberg; he might as well have put on a winter overcoat. It wasn't a big deal to him, one way or the other. He had almost twenty years on me. A free man, he'd been through psychoanalysis, Buddhism, hallucinogens, and come to terms with himself...
...pants, shirking every obligation, going to wild parties in Denver, New York, San Francisco, having uninhibited sex with beautiful girls, drinking in jazz in crowded joints, getting high on pot, engaging in intense discussions about God, about Love, about Salvation, all in a mad, passionate grab to dig everything and everybody. If Moriarty goes fast enough (and here's Kerouac's big clue-in coming up), if Moriarty's experiences are plentiful and violent enough, "the great ultimate secret will be laid bare...