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icarusReason number 1,001 why I love Asian Religions, in which my T.A., me, and the grad student forced to take a 200-level class act like silly teenagers.
Bear in mind that "lingam" is the cock and symbol of the potency of Shiva.
My T.A. admitted on Thursday that she and the other T.A.s had giggle fits over the following passage. She read it aloud and we cracked up:
The Lingam of Shiva
... and in the middle of the flame we saw a lingam (cock) of great lustre, measuring just a handsbreadth, unmanifest and full of supreme light. In the middle, it was neither gold nor stone or silver; it was indescribable, unimaginable, visible and invisible again and again. It had a thousand garlands of flames, amazing, miraculous; it had great brilliance, and kept getting much bigger. It was covered with a halo of flame, terrifying all creatures with its monstrous form, excessive, bursting through heaven and earth.
Then Brahma said to me, "Quickly, go down and find out the bottom end of this noble lingam (cock). I will go up until I see its top end." We agreed to do this, and went up and down.
I kept going down for a thousand years, but I did not reach the end of the lingam (cock); and then I became afraid. In the very same way, Brahma did not find its end above, and came back to join me right there in the expanse of water. Then we were amazed and frightened of the noble one.
We are 12.
Out Of Bounds progress report: one more scene typed and sent to the betas, and I'll write a second before I go to bed tonight. I'm now just writing everything I've sketched out in my notebook, just to see where I am and how much writing (vs. typing) I have left to do.
Bear in mind that "lingam" is the cock and symbol of the potency of Shiva.
My T.A. admitted on Thursday that she and the other T.A.s had giggle fits over the following passage. She read it aloud and we cracked up:
The Lingam of Shiva
... and in the middle of the flame we saw a lingam (cock) of great lustre, measuring just a handsbreadth, unmanifest and full of supreme light. In the middle, it was neither gold nor stone or silver; it was indescribable, unimaginable, visible and invisible again and again. It had a thousand garlands of flames, amazing, miraculous; it had great brilliance, and kept getting much bigger. It was covered with a halo of flame, terrifying all creatures with its monstrous form, excessive, bursting through heaven and earth.
Then Brahma said to me, "Quickly, go down and find out the bottom end of this noble lingam (cock). I will go up until I see its top end." We agreed to do this, and went up and down.
I kept going down for a thousand years, but I did not reach the end of the lingam (cock); and then I became afraid. In the very same way, Brahma did not find its end above, and came back to join me right there in the expanse of water. Then we were amazed and frightened of the noble one.
We are 12.
Out Of Bounds progress report: one more scene typed and sent to the betas, and I'll write a second before I go to bed tonight. I'm now just writing everything I've sketched out in my notebook, just to see where I am and how much writing (vs. typing) I have left to do.
