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...from the hearse and borne into one of the huge, resplendent grand salons. An airplane droned overhead, scattering roses; and through a blue haze the sacred mountains Iztaccihuatl (White Woman) and Popocatepetl (Smoke Mountain) seemed brooding. Simple peons, kneeling in the lovely, verdant Bosque de Chapultepec, muttered prayers half pagan, half Roman Catholic to Iztaccihuatl who they fancy resembles the white, reclining form of a pagan goddess -now somewhat confused with the Virgin Mary...
Only two characters in this second novel of Miss Warner's assume any importance--Mr. Fortune and his maggot--Lueli. Lueli is a youth who is the literary counterpart of the cinematic "Moana". He is lithe, graceful, ingratiating, childlike--and quite pagan. Worse than any vampire bat, he destroys Mr. Fortune's placidity; he creates have in a heart which had thought itself immune from any emotion except a fervent hatred for the world, the flesh and the devil. His innocence precludes any anger and his simplicity demands friendship. As Mr. Fortune's man Friday he wanders through the book...
Solomon, when he was a youngster, he remembers, sowed his wild oats. What, though, does he say when he grows old? He says: There is nothing better for a man than that he should eat and drink. . . . This time the question was: Could anything more arrantly pagan be suggested to sincere Christians...
...actors, chorines, bankers, merchants, lawyers. They beheld a vast, bronzed, Spanish Renaissance structure imposing its Moorish splendor upon the corner of Seventh Ave. and 50th St., in the backyard neighborhood of Broadway, otherwise asprawl with garages, night clubs, hotdog stands, pawn-jewelers. Inside it was golden-brown, well ventilated, pagan-like in its florid adornment. Three organists played in grand concert on a Kimball organ, which is said to have the properties of a symphony orchestra. Then came an invocation: "Ye Portals bright . . . unite us all to worship at beauty's throne." Then a dedication. All was solemn...
...early Christian temple was different in spirit from pagan shrines in that the former was a place to meet for worship, whereas the latter was considered the actual residence of the divinity. The result was a lack of self-consciousness and a simplicity that is of much interest to the student of the arts...