Word: karma
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Alfred snuffling about her. Alfred coming in. Watchit Alfred, bad karma. Bad karma too in Sam's judicial face watched her while she was ministering to young Stefan. Samson the hidebound eastern mutt. Merilee finds her dress and pulls it on over her head. She goes lightly barefoot to the edge of the canyon, expecting still her other half is nearby and waiting...
...obedient to come and they disappear miserably into the next small valley. Cast out of Eden over a little misunderstanding. And the angel has not a flaming sword but only love to offer them. As she starts barefoot after them, old Alfred whines and the angel tells him "Bad karma Alfred. You stay." He comes though, lacing himself in her footsteps all the way down the first barranca. The angel kicks him. Alfred howls...
...parents received just enough money to get them back across the border through T.J. The ghee had long since run out and the trip was a real sweetheart, Alfred humping away uselessly at Girl in the cramped back seat, Sam driving in silence and Merilee and Girl getting bad karma from everything. Girl finally bit Alfred's tail, but Merilee restrained herself...
Slowly the bonds of Untouchability have begun to weaken as the Hindu doctrine of karma has come into question. Karma teaches outcastes that their present misery is the result of sin committed in a previous incarnation. For centuries, that doctrine has ensured that the Untouchables would accept their lot. Now growing numbers of them are demanding a better break in this life, not the next...