A Digit of the Moon
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Excerpt from A Digit of the Moon: And Other Love Stories From the Hindu Tartary, says the Abbé Huc - himself the most imaginative and inimitable of all wanderers - is peopled with pilgrim birds: "high up in air, you see them roam, in dense battalions, forming in their flight, with a kind of drill in its caprice, a thousand quaint designs, which melt away only to be formed anew." So also, that region of vast and melancholy plains, stretching and rising southward ever to the white wall of huge Himalaya, is the very home of lakes: "Koko Nurs"; blue lovely sheets of sapphire, scattered like fragments of a broken mirror to spot earth with the colour of the sky. And one of these, hidden away in the all but inaccessible snows just south of Kailas (where the Great God dwells) is the sacred Mountain Tarn, Manasa: and thereby hangs our tale, whose title is so idiomatic that it can be rendered into English only by a paraphrase, losing a little of its Indian aroma on the way. It says to us this: What the Swan is to the Lake, what the Moon is to the Sky, what Parwati (the Daughter of Himalaya) is to her Lord, that is woman to the world: the Haunter, the Indweller, the Ornament, the Fixed-Idea, the Mystic Solitary Swan in the heart of the dark blue lake of Time. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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