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The story is told from first-person point-of-view by an unnamed narrator "clearly a Bowles persona." [2]A well-off American is visiting his associate, Brooks, in Bangkok. Brooks, teaching at a Bangkok university, enlists the company of three Buddhist monks acquaintances to accompany them on a day trip to the sacred city of Ayudha
Things Gone and Things Still Here contains examples of Bowles’s theme of “transference” or “transformation”, in which a human or animal undergoes a Kafkaesque metamorphosis, exchanging identities. The stories “Allal” and “Mejdoub” are representative of these works.
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One of the pod people hints at their extraterrestrial origin and purpose without explaining. Physician Miles Bennell, played by Kevin McCarthy, gets away from the town and tells his story to another doctor. A truck carrying pods is wrecked; thereafter, the second physician believes the tale.
Odysseus removing his men from the company of the lotus-eaters. In Greek mythology, lotophages or the lotus-eaters (Ancient Greek: λωτοφάγοι, romanized: lōtophágoi) were a race of people living on an island dominated by the lotus tree off coastal Libya (Island of Djerba), [1] [2] a plant whose botanical identity is uncertain.
It's called "Capsula Mundi," and it aims to replace coffins with egg-shaped burial pods. The deceased would serve as fertilizer while encased in a biodegradable coffin underground.
Brown peel lotus seeds are brown because the ripened seed has adhered to its membrane. The germ of these hard seeds is removed by cracking the seeds in half. Dried lotus seeds past their prime oxidize to a yellow brown color. However, some sellers of dried lotus seeds bleach their products with hydrogen peroxide, sodium hydroxide, or other ...