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Birth & Discovery. Born June 6, 1935, in the Chinese province of Chinghai, the Dalai Lama was one of six children of a peasant who lived near a three-storied monastery with a golden roof. It was this monastery that the regent of Tibet, looking for a successor to the 13th...
Belle. Finally, there is the family retainer, Nathalie, a formidable old bag of moles, chin hairs and salty folk proverbs. The four women are snug and smug; they have pooled their womanish fears to put life, as normally lived, in the wrong.
But generally evenings are quiet and bedtime is 11. Alec works on his sides for the next day, reads a little Dickens, has a go at mah-jongg with Merula-he is "mad for the game." Weekends he stuffs his pockets with patented French fuzees and stalks about the Guinness...
One such pilgrim-the book's narrator -is Andrew Colquhoun, a youngish Scots drifter eager to pluck the heart from Clausen's mystery, write his biography and perhaps thereby come to terms with his own restless nature. Also on the way to Clausen is an odd trio of...
Efficient Killer. Prometheus, Dart concludes, must have been a prodigious hunter, because around his bones are scattered fragments of the antelope, giraffe, buffalo, rhinoceros and hippopotamus. He also fished the streams for water turtles and robbed the nest of the shrike. Giant rodent moles, wart hogs and porcupines were staples...