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Here he is, for instance, describing his wedding night: "That night, that Sunday night I stood up and married her. I didn't know no more about bein' her in nature-course than I knowed about ying--it wouldn't have been no harm if I did. I meant to marry her and carry out the full obligation of my acts...
...Temple of Dawn, the third volume, Honda meets yet another reincarnation of his lost friend--this time a Thai princess named Ying Chan. A millionaire by this time, Honda builds a large summer home and invites the princess to visit him there, hoping to win her affections. His hopes come to naught, however, and he resorts to peering through a hole in the wall to watch her make love to another woman. Years later, he learns of her death by cobra-bite in Thailand...
Honda is crushed. The abbess suggests to him that perhaps his memory has faded somewhat, that Kiyoaki never indeed existed. "If there was no Kiyoaki, then there was no Isao," he says. "There was no Ying Chan, and who knows, perhaps there has been...
With Honda's increasing realization that Toru is not the real reincarnation of Kiyoaki comes acceptance of the arbitrary nature of reality. "It was an accident, an utterly senseless accident, that Kiyoaki and Isao and Ying Chan had all appeared beside Honda... Eternity does not come into being because I think I exist," the old man reflects. Struck by the final challenge of Satoko's denial of Kiyoaki's existence, Honda sits in the abbey garden...
...YING-SHIH, Chinese historian: Gandhi, a religious saint of the highest moral principles, but also a political leader who worked for the rights of the depressed and disinherited classes. He had no personal greed for power but cared rather for the welfare of the people, using persuasion instead of violence, never allowing expediency to justify a deviation from the truth...