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This is called "The
Soul Has Many Brides."

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I have no idea what--

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how that title came to
me, but there it is.

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"The Soul Has Many Brides."

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"In India, I was
greatly taken up

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as a fly in the
temple, which gave me

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the distinct feeling it was
possible, just possible,

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that we had met before.

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Was it in Mexico City,
climbing the bloody spot--

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the blood-spotted yellow
legs of the crucified

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Christ while his eyes
grew larger and larger?

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May God seat you on
the highest throne

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of his invisible
kingdom, a blind beggar

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said to me in English.

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He knew what I saw, at the
saloon where Pancho Villa fired

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his revolvers at the ceiling,
on the bare ass of a naked nymph

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stepping out of a
lake in a painting,

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and now shamelessly crawling up
one of Buddha's nostrils, whose

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smile got even more secretive,
even more squint eyed."