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...hero's life solely through scraps of letters, diaries and notebooks. In quest of his own soul, Don Ardito meets a homosexual who reminds him, in perverted fleshly form, of his own once fiery love of God. And he is tempted by a devil named Mr. Page (for pagan) who tells him that God is simply another invention...
...there are wonderful drives from the seedy capital of Djakarta through jungle-clad hills to cool Bandung and Bogor. Bali has two good hotels and is always lively with festivals, cockfights, legong dances and gala cremations. Burma is not much like Kipling's description of it, but Mandalay, Pagan and Rangoon have thousands of superb Buddhist monasteries and gold-domed temples alive with tinkling silver bells. With newer and better hotels, steadily improving plane service and a gradual understanding of visitors' needs, tourist traffic in the Far East is up 20% over 1959, should total...
Feathers or Lead? Himself steeped in Greek myth and history, Durrell is quick to relish the durable, often superstitious, links with the pagan past. In Rhodes, the peasants believe that a child conceived on March 25 must be born on Christmas Eve and will inevitably turn out to be a Kaous. A Kaous is an impish little devil, complete with horns, hoofs and pointed ears, descended from Pan. He circulates after dark, croaking, "Feathers or lead?" Either answer may be wrong, after which the Kaous mounts his victim like a horse for a breakneck ride across country, lashing...
...write a letter to the sculptor who was to design the statue that would adorn it. What or whom should the statue represent? ''We have too many Washingtons," wrote the captain firmly on May 11, 1855. "We have America in the pediment. Victories and Liberties are rather pagan emblems, but a Liberty, I fear, is the best we can get." And so Sculptor Thomas Crawford set to work in his studio in Rome. The model he made was nearly lost at sea. but eventually his 14,985-lb. statue, cast in bronze, was raised by steam hoist...
...Mexico's neo-Pueblo campus look like a set from Ben-Hur. Gorged on deviled eggs in the Student Union, supine banqueters cheered a female snake dancer. Borne on a litter into the football stadium, purple-robed League President Ernest ("The Emperor'') Polansky, 18, gave his pagan blessing to Olympic games, complete with chariot races. In deadly earnest, white-robed candidates for top offices politicked in the ballroom. Taking no chances, they made their convention pitches in English...