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...absence of John Dickinson, the fatigue from traveling between games, injuries, and Norfolk's "subversive" undermining of the Harvard ruggers by holding the traditional post-game party the night before the game, all contributed to the Joss...
...used it to provoke riots. Apparently frightened, Tri Quang dissolved his local councils, withdrew from Saigon to Hué, the true spiritual center of Vietnamese Buddhism, where a thousand ceremonies go on in a hundred temples and the sun is obscured by the smoke of millions of burning joss sticks. Here Tri lives in a spare cell in the Tu Dam pagoda, receives crowds of awed visitors, plays chess, and plots his moves against the government...
...ancestor worship and cult of the dead. The 15th day of the seventh month is set aside annually for the departed; the shades swoop down upon the living, who do their best to placate them with a sumptuous feast. Dressed in their best black silk and carrying burning joss sticks, the women recite invitations to their dead ancestors to partake of roast pig's head and sticks of sugar cane, peanuts and white rice. As offerings to less trencher-minded spirits, they burn paper imitations of currency and clothes...
...younger children adore him and he likes them too-all except Joss. For Joss he has the sort of feeling it doesn't do to think too much about, under the circumstances. And what does she feel for him? She hardly knows. But she knows that he finds her exciting, and that she finds that exciting. Utterly without experience, perfectly without conscience, she decides to experiment, to practice her apprentice sorceries on this available male...
...girlish pique betrays the Englishman to the police, and only the next day discovers that she loves him. "I'll never love anyone else!" she sobs as the road seems suddenly to end in the middle of nowhere. But the Englishman smiles gently as he says: "Goodbye. Joss. This summer you've grown...