ATDTDA (2): "wheel" (38, 39, 40 )

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And let's not forget that Prarie Wheeler leads us straight to:

http://www.dharma-haven.org/tibetan/prayer-wheel.htm

http://www.athenapub.com/tibprayw.htm

http://www.buddhanet.net/e-learning/history/b_prayer.htm

http://www.tibetshop.com/wlh7.html

http://www.mundi.net/cartography/Wheel/

"Not for the first time, he experienced a kind of waking 
swoon, which not so much propelled as allowed him 
entry into an urban setting, like the world he had left 
but differing in particulars which were not slow to 
reveal themselves." AtD, 38
 
". . . .In a small courtyard within a courtyard, he came upon 
a group of men and women, engaged in a slow ritual movement, 
a country dance, almost---though Lew, pausing to watch, was 
not sure what country. Soon they were gazing back. as if in some 
way they knew him, and all about his troubles. When their business 
was done, they invited him over to a table under an awning, where 
all at once, over root beer and Saratoga chips, Lew found himself 
confessing "everything", which in fact wasn't much---"What I need is 
some way to atone for whatever it is I've done. 
I can't keep on with this life. . . ."

     "We can teach you," said one of them, who seemed to be in 
charge, introducing himself only as Drave.   "AtD 39

http://www.1911encyclopedia.org/Drave

Remembrance stick:

http://classiclit.about.com/library/bl-etexts/wjthomas/bl-wjthomas-welsh-fairystick.htm

     "Going off my trolley. And you're trying to help me get
 back to the way most people, 's that it?"

     "'Most people'", not raising his voice, though something 
in Lew jumped as if he had, "are dutiful and dumb as oxen. 
Delirium literally means going out of a furrow you've been 
plowing. Think of this as a productive sort of delirium". AtD 40