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...Serpent. The result is a send-up that anyone who has ever groaned through an overfootnoted attempt at scholarship will relish. Of a Mexican bartender Finney writes: "His forefathers came to this country a little after Hernando Cortez. His foremothers, Mayans, Toltecs, and Aztecs, were already here." A child devoured by a sea serpent is disposed of in an equally deadpan manner: "For seven years he was a diner; then for a few minutes he was a dinner. Ultimately he was incorporated into the cell structure of the sea serpent, a distinction he did not enjoy." Horses are "anachronisms less...
...them that are at ease in Zion... though they dig into hell, thence shall my hand take them; though they climb up to heaven, thence will I bring them down... And though they be hid from my sight at the bottom of the sea, thence will I command the serpent, and he shall bite them. --from the Book of Amos, King James Version...
...there is an archetypal adversary, an angry Amos unearthing evil in America today, it is Jack Anderson. He is the latter-day, stinging serpent of the Lord at the bottom of the bureaucracy, slugging away at slime and moral decay, six days a week...
...interesting to observe that the Symbionese Liberation Army [Feb. 18] did not invent its symbol, the seven-headed cobra. This is an old symbol of Hindu mythology, representing first a Naga, a sacred serpent born of Kadru and the sage Kasyapa. then the serpent-king Sesha, who is usually associated with the god Vishnu in the creation of the world. The picture of this symbol is probably taken from an esoteric book by James Churchward, The Sacred Symbols...
...collect? Here, clearly, the answers involve the most subjective value judgments. With rare exceptions, conscience and cash-consciousness are mixed in widely varying proportions. The one-snake staff of Aesculapius the healer-the official emblem of the American Medical Association-is obviously in conflict with the two-serpent caduceus of Mercury, the god of commerce. Although medical ethics has long been the subject of resounding rhetoric, it has not been effectively taught in medical schools. William Curran, Harvard Professor of Legal Medicine, says: "For years, medical ethics was more etiquette than ethics. Students were taught how doctors shouldn...