Vulgar words in Following the Equator, Part 6 (Page 1)
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If he should ever cross to the other side of the Ganges and get caught out and die there he would at once come to life again in the form of an ass.
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The Hindoo has a childish and unreasoning aversion to being turned into an ass.
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One could properly expect an ass to have an aversion to being turned into a Hindoo.
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But the Hindoo changed into an ass wouldn't lose anything, unless you count his religion.
~ ~ ~ Sentence 380 ~ ~ ~
It is a state which other Hindoos reach by being born again and again, and over and over again into this world, through one re-incarnation after another-a tiresome long job covering centuries and decades of centuries, and one that is full of risks, too, like the accident of dying on the wrong side of the Ganges some time or other and waking up in the form of an ass, with a fresh start necessary and the numerous trips to be made all over again.
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The raindrops were so large and struck the river with such force that they knocked up the water like pebble-splashes.