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Having foregone his songwriting, saxophone-tootling and other worldly pleasures for 15 days, Thailand's young (28) King Phumiphon Adundet this week wound up his term as a Buddhist monk (TIME, Sept. 24). In keeping with the royal tradition that a Thai king should spend some time as a priest (like any devout male commoner). Phumiphon, saffron-robed, barefoot and shaven-pated, had turned his kingdom into the hands of Queen Sirikit, 24, who acted as regent during the King's religious furlough...
...happily spared the shears on some of the best stories in Christian tradition, though modern scholarship and/or common sense deny them corroboration. One such is the legend of St. Marina, whom her father disguised as a boy and took to the monastery with him when he became a monk. In due course Marina, too, became a monk, and was accused of getting a local innkeeper's daughter with child. Dismissed from the monastery to live as a beggar at its gates, Marina uttered not a word in self-defense. Only when she died was her sex and innocence discovered...
...that British Frogman "Buster" Crabb a strange revenant of that Stephen Crabbe of the 13th century who detected the invisible invasion ship of the piratical Eustace the Monk? He was the only one in England able to see the phantom ship, boarded it, and his companions saw him in the air above the waters, swinging his axe which slew Eustace, until he was torn to bits by demons allied with the traitorous Eustace...
...According to Military Historian Vagts (The History of Militarism, Landing Operations), the legend of Eustace the Monk grew up after England's naval victory at the Battle of Dover on Aug. 21, 1217 where the defeated French leader Eustace, a mercenary soldier and "master of pirates," was beheaded. His ghost and invisible ship were detected by one Stephen Crabbe of England...
Stripped of his social functions, his sprigs of parsley, his actresses and courtesans, Hugo flourished in his romantic role of "Great Exile." "I am living the life of a monk," he wrote exultantly from Belgium. "I have a bed which is about a hand's-breadth wide . . ." From his narrow couch, Hugo fled on to the Channel Islands, after leaving most of his sizable fortune in investments in a Belgian bank and accepting from the Belgian Prime Minister "an offer of shirts" to soften the road of poverty...