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"How did you find out about all this?"
"Studying religions
"How much do you weigh, Meredith?"
"More than enough, Daddy
Her eye sockets were hugeHalf an inch above the veil, big, big dark eye sockets, and inches above the eye sockets the hair, which no longer streamed down her back but seemed just to have happened onto her head, still blond like his but long and thick no longer because of a haircut that was itself an act of violenceWho'd done it? She or someone else? And with what? She could not, in keeping with her five vows, have renounced any attachment as savagely as she had renounced her once-beautiful hair
"But you don't look as though you eat anything" and despite his costume jewelry chanel intention to state this to her unemotionally, he as good as moaned--unbidden a voice emerged from the Swede wretchedly laced with all his dismay"What do you eat?"
"I destroy plant lifeI am insufficiently compassionate as yet to refuse to do that
"You mean you eat vegetablesIs that what you mean? What is wrong with that? How could you refuse to do that? Why should you?"
"It is an issue of personal sanctityIt is a matter of reverence for lifeI am bound to harm no living being, neither man, nor animal, nor plant
"But you would die if you did thatHow can you be 'bound' to that? You would eat nothing
"You ask a profound questionYou are a very intelligent man, DaddyYou ask, 'If you respect omega watch orange life in all forms, how can you live?' The answer is you cannotThe traditional way by which a Jain holy man ends his life is by salla khana--self-starvationRitual death by salla khana is the price paid for perfection by the perfect Jain
"I cannot believe this is youI have to tell you what I think
"I cannot believe, clever as you are, that you know what you are saying or what you are doing here or whyI cannot believe that you are telling me that a point will come when you will decide that you will not even destroy plant life, and that you won't eat anything, and that you will just doom yourself to deathFor whom, Merry? For what?"
"It's all rightIt's all right, DaddyI can believe that you gucci indy bag can't believe that you know what I'm saying or what I'm doing or why
She addressed him as though he were the child and she were the parent, with nothing but sympathetic understanding, with that loving tolerance that he once had so disastrously extended to herThe condescension of a lunaticYet he neither bolted for the door nor leaped to do what had to be doneHe remained the reasonable fatherThe reasonable father of someone madDo something! Anything! In the name of everything reasonable, stop being reasonableThis child needs a hospitalShe could not be in any greater peril if she were adrift on a plank in the middle of the seaShe's gone over the edge of the ship--how that happened is not the tas hermes question nowShe must be rescued immediately!
"Tell me where you studied religionsNobody looks for you thereI was in libraries often, and so I read
"You read a lot when you were a little girl
"I did? I like to read
"That's where you became a member of this religion
"And church? Do you go to some sort of a church?"
"There is no church at the centerThere is no god at the centerGod is at the center of the Judeo-Christian traditionAnd God may say, 'Take life' And it is then not just permissible but obligatoryThat's all over the Old TestamentThere are examples even in the New TestamentIn Judaism and Christianity the position is taken that life belongs to GodLife isn't sacred, God is chanel big sac