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...traditional "prejudice" surrounding Champollion's famous discovery to glamorizing myth. Instead, he explores at length the Occidental fascination with "the Hindu soul... something like a separate sex." Schwab's retrospective vision is itself a richly dense landscape with illuminating details such as Shelley's "pantheism" and Leibnitz's "Oriental lobe." Schwab invokes, with impressive authority, a wide ranging cast of intellectual and artistic figures from Chateaubriand and Hugo to Herder and Schopenhauer, in an imaginative attempt to reconstruct the vivid mood of self-awakening...
DIED. Francisco ("Kiko") Bejines, 20, Mexican bantamweight boxer; from head injuries suffered in a World Boxing Council title bout with Alberto Davila on Sept. 1; in Los Angeles. After undergoing 3½ hours of surgery to remove a section of his frontal lobe, the boxer lingered comatose for two more days; his was the 437th boxing death recorded by Ring magazine over the past 64 years. Bejines' wife, pregnant with the couple's first child, remained in their home town of Guadalajara, Mexico...
...novel Berlin Alexanderplatz (1929), Alfred Döblin dissected and described his characters' passions with the meticulous disinterest of a big-city coroner ("Then she sank to the part of his body she thought was his heart but was in fact his sternum and the upper lobe of his left lung"). A physician like his spiritual contemporary Céline, Döblin saw Germany as a huge human slaughterhouse and Franz as "a big, good-natured sheep.' Mixing statistics of death and disease with the story of some petty, brutal people living in East Berlin...
...anything new in the way of facts, valuable impressions or lucid argument. It comprises 167 pages of maundering glop whose gloppishness ought to be abundantly evident to the most fanatical West Bank settler as well as any bomb-chucking PLO member, provided both have a half a frontal lobe in working order...
...lunged simultaneously, the tip of Behr's foil struck Smirnov's chest protector with unusual force. The blade snapped off at the tip; the jagged end then sprang upward, cut through Smirnov's wire-mesh face protector and sank between his left eye and left frontal lobe, severing an artery and piercing his brain...