Established Marvel : a Monk by Abbreviation

55. IN THE CITY OF THE KHAZARS:

I learned many things and I made images of everything all around me so as to make sense of this life : it became my very own Tabard Inn - something out of Chaucer where I watched the comings and goings and listened to all that was said - and as Plato had said 'the soul takes nothing with her into the other world but her education and culture' and with that in mind I walked with the utmost care through the Gate of the Sun - and it was one John Millington Synge who had said 'a CROWD is as exciting as champagne to those lonely people who live in long glens in the mountains' and it had been a while since Tony Main's place was a regular domicile for me too and I often recalled (with some verve) the girls and women I'd seen there and the adventures I'd heard and witnessed but it had seemed since then that for some reason my life had taken a different turn FROM that and more towards a philosophy somehow of 'scorn' for the flesh instead of chasing it and all I'd seen of it and the wonderful attributes of the flush female form - naked and clothed - had pushed me onward AWAY from it for even as it was in all its beauty stunning and fair it still too was something I found easy to push away and so in some 'monastic' way I peddled myself as 'goods solitary and alone' while seeking some 'other' world higher and broader than all that : and the two differing vantage points were easily summed up for me both by the ancients 1.'who sculpted Love and set him by the pool / thinking with water such fire to cool?' and 2. 'beauty tainted by human flesh and coloring and all that mortal rubbish' and I studied and read all that I could - anywhere it could be found and by whatever means - I studied Alexandria and Alexander the Great Ptolomy Soter Ptolomy Philadelphius Euclid Galen Philo Origen Plotinus Arius and more.