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VOL. 10:2 Exile

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Parabola's Summer 1985 issue: Exile We are all dreamers, asleep to the reality of our lives. We are all exiles on a planet in exile (planet: wanderer, from Greek planan, to lead astray), a globe trapped halfway between heaven and hell. We see our "dividedness" wherever we look: one moment we prattle of love, unity, inner peace; the next moment we spit on our neighbor and vilify ourselves. Recalling the legend of Richard the Lion-hearted and faithless Prince John, we realize that these royal figures strut across our interior stage: there, too, the true monarch is abroad and upstart subordinates--our lusts, our fears--control the throne. We can, if we wish, heap the blame for our state on modernity, on the collapse of tradition, which causes our psyches to warp as we grow toward adulthood. We can indict modern science, which stripped God naked, or modern religion, which dandified him with dogmatic finery. Whatever our culprit, it's clear that we are acceding, in a variety of contemporary and ancient languages, to the concept of a pan-human degeneration from a golden age, to Eliade's idea of "beatitude before the Fall." Our misery springs from our felt privation. --from "Living in the Rift" by Philip Zaleski Cover: Detail from "Expulsion from Paradise" by Masaccio

Table of Contents

"Living in the Rift" by Philip Zaleski
- The contemporary challenge
"Out of Chaos" by Vine Deloria, Jr.
- The exilic mission of the Native American
"Now, Farewell and Hail" by P.L. Travers
- Lost and found
"We Are All Witnesses"
- An interview with Elie Wiesel
"The Strife of Interpretation: The Moral Burden of Imagination" by Richard R. Niebuhr
- The art of reading deeply
"The Way Back" by D.M. Dooling
- Mythic images of return
"Homing In" by Janwillem van de Wetering
- A place to begin
"Tibet: Mystic Nation in Exile" by Robert A.F. Thurman
- Fruits of the diaspora

Tangents - Reviews

"The End of Exile?" by Frederick Franck
- A review essay of Falasha: Exile of the Black Jews

Epicycles - Traditional stories from around the world

"Parting Gift" / Chinese retold by Anne Twitty
"The Flight and Exile of Quetzalcoatl" / Aztec translated from the Nahuatl by John Bierhorst
"The Hymn of the Pearl" / Gnostic retold by Anne Twitty
"O My Country!" / Maghreb retold by Anne Twitty

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