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Show -60- Professor thought? it was the symbol of life surviving death. Wasn't that what all religious sacrifice signified: Osiris, Dionysis? Christ? The survival of the life force. He tried to piece it all together. The animals represented deity to the cave dwellers, yettlihe gods must die in order that Han might survive. He tried to imagine the Intense guilt such a people must feel?1 killing their gods in order that they could aire.' Such an act, he thought; must have been accomplished ceremoniously? He recalled one example in recent history;^ Members of an American Indian tribe? when they killed a deer? went up to it and whispaeBtfg., "Go in peace? Little Brother?" He remained in the hospital six days? When he got up? he felt weaker that he had thought he would? when he arrived home again? he could not sit at the typewriter and muster up the concentration necessary to put his ideas on paper. During the warm afternoons? he sat on the patio or by the pool, impatient but recuperating? The doctor had told him that as soon as he felt completely well? he wanted him to go to the hospital in San Francisco and undergo what he called "a multiphasic" - a complete physical examination. He said he would? and his wife called and made the appointment? |