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Satan seizes the Master's manuscript and, in the Communist manner, proceeds to rewrite history. He allows the Biblical Pilate the satisfaction of killing Judas, and the further mercy of believing that the Crucifixion never took place at all. Thus does the Devil bless mankind by giving it a comfortable lie by which to live. The Master can forget his obsession and remains in peace with his beautiful mistress Margarita (who has given up a promising career as a witch for his sake). But Bulgakov makes clear his own belief: Pilate's guilt, an expedient cowardice that allows...
Like Nat Turner, Styron grew up in the Tidewater country, and Turner's story preoccupied him long before he began work on the book. From the time he studied writing at Duke University, through tentative years as a part-time manuscript reader for a New York publisher, Styron kept turning back to Nat. "The melodramatic side attracted me first," he says, "which is why I waited. If I had written it as a younger man, it really would have been gothic...
Until now, scholars have had to work with a Chinese dictionary written about 100 A.D. that provides little or no help in deciphering texts predating two centuries B.C. Jao estimates that the Ch'u Silk Manuscript will reveal the meanings of 300 hitherto-undefined characters. Working with infra-red photographs, which help make the characters legible, Jao has begun translating the manuscript into modern Chinese. Dr. Noel Barnard, a senior fellow in Far Eastern history at Australian National University, is converting it into "pidgin English...
Auspicious Times. Other experts are attempting to discover the meaning of the twelve creatures bordering the manuscript. Among them are antlered "gods" with long, protruding tongues, which bear a marked resemblance to supernatural creatures appearing in South American art of roughly the same era. "This is the first evidence we've had that some of South America's high cultures and civilizations developed similarly to that of the Chinese," says Dr. Douglas Fraser, a Columbia associate professor of art history and archaeology. Fraser and most of his colleagues believe the Ch'u Silk Manuscript was "a sacred...
...Communist Chinese, who have mounted massive searches to unearth a manuscript to match it, the Ch'u silk is as important and remote as Taiwan. But Sackler, who paid more for it than the combined cost of his 10,000-piece collection of early Asiatic paintings, sculptures and other artifacts, intends to make infra-red photographs of the priceless manuscript available to scholars everywhere. Including Red China...