Joyce's Nightmare
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Today in History – March 2
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From Gravity's Rainbow (Penguin Classics, 1995), page 563:
"He brings out the mandala he found.
Slothrop gives him the mandala. He hopes it will work like the mantra that Enzian told him once, mba-kayere (I am passed over), mba-kayere… a spell […]. A mezuzah. Safe passage through a bad night…."
In lieu of Slothrop's mandala, here is another… 
Christ and the Four Elements
This 1495 image is found in
Related mandalas:
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Happy birthday to
Tom Wolfe, author of
The Painted Word.