Word: karastra
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Story. Jâli is heir apparent to the kingdom of Karastra. Thirsting for Occidental wisdom, he escapes Asia, arrives impoverished in London, where he shrinks from bustle, rain, cupidity. He sells some jewels, and moves to Claridge's.* Naked heiresses disgust him, aristocratic drawing rooms open to actors and prizefighters amaze. At Cambridge he devours the knowledge which a cultured French friend sorts out for him. When his French friend dies, Jâli mourns him deeply, but ruminates upon the curious Western distaste for death. The East, having learned the desirability of death, celebrates its advent with...
...next table object to "the colored man." Jâli in anguish escapes to San Francisco Chinatown, where an ancient watchmaker mumbles his philosophy of resignation and indifference. Comforted by the old Chinaman, disgusted with the Occident, Jâli returns to the pomp and ceremony of coronation in Karastra...
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