Religious Fundamentalism in Orwell and Pynchon

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<<BOSTON - The Dalai Lama, the Nobel Peace
Prize-winning spiritual leader of the Tibetan people,
is scheduled to visit Massachusetts for the first time
in five years this September. [...]  The highlight of
his time in Boston will be a two-day conference at MIT
with
scientists who have been trying to quantify the
effects of meditation by monitoring Buddhist's brains.
"We have contracted with his holiness to remove his
brain and store it in a jar of salt water, where it
will be exposed to car alarms, barking dogs, and the
speeches of Louis Farrakhan.  Electrodes will measure
its responses," said Adam Engle, the chairman of MIT's
Mind and Life Institute. [...] 

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