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Pastimes : A CENTURY OF LIONS/THE 20TH CENTURY TOP 100 -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Tom Clarke who wrote (2812)	5/15/2000 2:27:00 PM
From: Raymond Clutts	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 3246

OK but like all puns it suffers unless when it's separated from the context of the story. In "Lord of Light" the principle characters are Godlike beings who have assumed the identities of Hindu deities after they advanced biological science to the point where they can reincarnate themselves in new bodies with their former personalities and memories intact. And as is often the case these Gods fell to squabbling amongst themselves. One of them (Sam/Siddhartha) opts out of the politics of Heaven and seeks to live his life among the human populace. When Sam's own body has aged to where he must either seek to transfer to a new body or face death he is rightfully suspicious that he will be punished for having refused to take his place in the Hindu pantheon. Sam lives as a prince among mortals with a contentious neighbor known as the Shan of Irabek. Sam drugs the Shan and sends him in his place to receive the new body that Sam suspects will be diseased or otherwise maimed. Then after the body transference takes place Sam watches to see if his suspicions were rightly founded. And as the author says, "The prince looked upon him muscular and tanned, in his mid-twenties possessed of hawklike features and a powerful bearing-and he felt suddenly that his doubts had been unfounded and that he had betrayed himself by his suspicion and mistrust. It appeared from the lithe physical specimen seated upon his own mount that the Bramha had bargained in good faith, authorizing for his use an excellent and sturdy body, which was now possessed by the ancient Shan. "Lord Sidhdhartha," said his man, who had ridden at the side of the Lord of Irabek, "it appears that they dealt fairly. I see naught amiss about him."... Then the (epileptic) fit hit the Shan..." OK I told you it was a pun-by definition the lowest form of humor.