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piece of entertainment. Rushdie is satirizing certain tendencies toward Islamic fanaticism he was later to experience in all too personal a fashion. “The Prophet’s Hair” (London Review of Books, 1981) was based on an actual incident. At the Hazratbal shrine in Srinagar, on December 27, 1963, it was disclosed that the day before a hair reputedly from the beard of the Prophet Muhammad (known as the Moe-i-Muqaddas) had disappeared. It had been kept in a small glass tube secured inside two wooden cupboards

pour amasser la plus Page 20 de 321 Page 20 de 321 Page 20 de 321 Le Code De Da Viincii Le Code De Da Vin ci Le Code De Da V nc Brun De Dan Brun De Dan Brun De Dan grande collection d'art de déesse sur des haches — de labrys de la terre du shrine grec le plus ancien des prêtresses à Delphes, les baguettes magiques de caducei d'or, centaines d'ankhs de Tjet ressemblant à de petits anges debout, hochets de sistrum employés en Egypte antique pour dissiper des spiritueux mauvais et une rangée

power which is intermingled with the forest which caters for all needs. People also believe in the protection given by the ancestors and in their intercession on behalf of the living God. That is why, in the remote past, every family head built a shrine for this partrilineal ancestor to express this conviction. Convicted witches were put to death. Sometimes they would be forced to move away from the community because they were considered a threat to brotherhood. This practice derives from people's

permanent and doing no harm, although not as useful-for who could be in any doubt?-are distinctions that assert that Mary Pickford was an actress (not a very good one, though), that Diana's servitors were priestesses and that the oracle in Apollo's shrine at Delphi was a prophetess. Happily, we are expunging from the language, almost as swiftly as they were introduced by agitatoresses, such horrors as editress, paintress and doc­ tress. Yet, as a melancholy listing in the Harper Dictionary Of Contempo­

elle était belle ! Combien belle ! Il se prit alors soudain à songer qu'il lui suffirait de saisir la fermeture éclair qu'elle avait au cou, et de (1) Troilus, I, 1. (2) Romeo and Miel, III, 3. (3) If I profane with my unworthiest hand This holy shrine. {Romeo and Juliet, I, S.) 166 tirer d'un seul coup, !ong, vigoureux... Il ferma les yeux, il hocha rapidement la tête du geste d'un chien qui se secoue les oreilles au sortir de l'eau. Détestable pensée ! Il eut honte de lui-même. Chaste pudeur

la croix. Les documents découverts parmi les manuscrits de la mer Morte furent publiés par l'American School of Oriental Research, l'Université hébraïque et le Service jordanien des antiquités. La plupart des manuscrits se trouvent actuellement au Shrine of the Book, au musée Rockefeller de Jérusalem et au musée du Département des antiquités d'Amman. Plusieurs traductions et commentaires des manuscrits ont été publiés depuis leur découverte. | |Qumram, également appelé

noisy pleasures of the senses, and endeavors to live in the conflicts of outward things, just so much does he reap the experiences of pain and sorrow, which, becoming at last intolerable, drive him back to the feet of the inward Comforter, to the shrine of the peaceful solitude within. It is in solitude only that a man can be truly revealed to himself. Inward harmony is spiritual power, February Twenty-fifth. TAKE the principle of Divine Love, and quietly and diligently meditate upon it with

then golden seen close, its skin is like that of a nibbled biscuit, with its silicious lime; stone eaten into holes ; sometimes, when the sun is setting, it turns crimson, and rises up like a monstrous and delicate shrine, rose and green and, at twUight, turns blue, then ; seems to evaporate as it fades into violet." Or, again, in a passage which comes nearer to the conventional idea of eloquence, how absolute an phrase, a value " : avoidance

course of evolution, and especially by the monki, and rather perceptively linked this theory to the Western practice of keeping animals in zoos. Lawrence argues cogently that Yali regarded this emphasis on natural history as a kind of totemism,9 a shrine, as it were, for the preservation of social relations. The point is made more concisely by Yali's later interpretation of some New Guinean artifacts he had seen in a Queensland museum during the Second World War. According to Lawrence, "Yali himself