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Pretty girls make graves

He claimed at once that I was a great "Bodhisattva," meaning "great wise being" or "great wise angel," and that I was ornamenting this world with my sincerity.

We had the same favorite Buddhist saint, too: Avalokitesvara, or, in Japanese, Kwan-non the Eleven-Headed.

Japhy wasn't big, just about five foot seven, but strong and wiry and fast and muscular. His face was a mask of woeful bone, but his eyes twinkled like the eyes of old giggling sages of China, over that little goatee, to offset the rough look of his/ /handsome face.

the world is nothing but mind and what is the mind? The mind is nothing but the world, goddammit.

Japhy Ryder, equally empty, equally to be loved, equally a coming Buddha,' then I run on, say, to 'David O.