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Let me hasten to assure you I do NOT belong to this bunch. Rather 1 tend to be the type whose eye but catches the merest glance on an advertisement for throat lozenges, and immediately I am smitten with two kinds of pneumonia, followed by galloping consumption. With this for a track record, it is not to be wondered at that soon after arriving in Bali 1 caught a cold. Yes, 7-degrees from the Equator, punctured fore and aft with injections against tropical diseases - both popular and rare varieties - and 1 catch a COLDI Not mark you, just a cold, but a breatheatching, ribshattering bronchitis. The hotel manager heard me (who couldn't) and arrived. with the sister from the local clinic. The assistant manager ca ' me to carry her bag, and my house boy came. He had never lost a guest yet, and from his face I could see he didn't want me to be his first casualty. The sister took
one look at me and prescribed an injection. On the word injection the
manager stepped across to my bed and inquired shyly "Do you mind
if we all stay until sister gives the injection?" Assured of my consent,
all the men politely retreated to the far side of the bedroom, faced the
wall and waited while sister bared my buttocks and gave the healing jab.
When I was respectably hidden again beneath the sheet, they about faced
and quietly took their leave - except the house boy, who knelt at the
foot of my bed, massaging the soles of my feet. Weary, but puzzled I asked
why Because I cannot think of anything else to help…
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we must point out a very important distinction which the Balinese make between
two clearly separate groups of ancestors. The first of these groups consists
of the dead who are riot yet completely purified. This group is in turn subdivided
in pirata, those riot yet cremated, and pitara, those already cremated. The
former are still completely impure; the latter have been purified, but are still
considered as distinct, individual souls. The second group consists of the completely
purified ancestors who are considered as divine. Everything Bali Indonesia |
