Page 16 - GALIET THE KING AND THE CORPSE: The Four Cardinal Corners and the Quest of the Blue Cloak, the Mask and the Sword IV GALIET THE KING AND THE CORPSE: The Four Cardinal Corners and the Quest of the Blue Cloak, The Mask and the Sword

so that we may discern and discriminate. Vetala of the sacred logos, Vetala, the companion, guide and torch unto darkness, the very Socratic torch, and yes, o yes, Vetala, forever magnetizing our souls with perplexing inspirations and riddles that dwell across the life spans of humankind. And yes, forever us, yes, searching for our own heavens in the pit of woe’s dark until not a stone is left unturned, until not one phantom is left alive, until we find the sacred torch and with it, we torch race, race and race, “on horseback for the goddess”7 with Vetala and delight in him so that we may go on singing of the next beyond, of the next riddles until everyone finds their fluvial seeds
Thou hast a lap full of seed, And this is a fine country. Why doest thou not cast thy seed
And live in it merrily?8 (William Blake)
These are the vicious-circle-journeys that heaven demands, these are the journeys that transcend and earn King Trivikramasena his reward and glory and ruins and robs Ksantisila of his. Beyond his evil intents and ignorance, Ksantisila’s other vices are his complacence and laziness: he is
7 Grube, G.M.A. ed. and trans. Plato Republic. Indianapolis: Hacket Publishing, 1992. 328a
8 Blake, William. The Marriage of Heaven and Hell. Oxford, New York, Paris: Oxford University Press, 2002.
•16•