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...might affect the extent of the grant in the future, [however]," he says...
...Everyone was shocked." Asani says, recalling the many times when he had to introduce himself. "They asked me, 'How can you be African? You look Indian. You can't be African.' I would respond, 'What's an African supposed to look like?' I was really shocked at the extent of ignorance among the students. They would ask me if we lived in huts. One person even asked me if there were lions roaming the streets...
Hardoon's topic--tonight and every Thursday, to packed classes--is how to align oneself with "the Light," the never-ending mystical emanation of the Unknowable God, Ein Sof. That he addresses this publicly at all is remarkable, since Kabbalah was a tightly guarded secret for centuries. The extent of change in that status, however, is revealed in a boast: "Someone came to me and asked, 'Is it true that Madonna studies Kabbalah?'" Hardoon says. He allows a Billy Crystal-esque pause. "Oh, you heard about that?" Laughter...
...enigmatic Watson untold. Lost Man's River carries the puzzle forward, but in doing so withdraws an additional 50 years from the event. Lucius Watson, one of E.J.'s sons, by now an elderly, self-apologetic historian, pokes around, finds the sole credible witness still alive and to some extent sorts things out. The oddity here is that the author cares more about the old shooting than most of the characters seem to. As with the first novel (a necessity for understanding the second), what is first rate is Matthiessen's loving descriptions of wildlife, human swamp dwellers...
...major distinction can be made among art works that utilize history. On the one hand there are art works that attempt to place themselves, regardless of genre and extent of revisionism, within the realm of historical discussion on a particular topic. On the other, there are those which make no attempt to enter the arena of debate and interpretation and merely use history as a convenient plot backdrop...