Daffy Yum - Day One Hindu Cosmology American Style
Here we go. I guess I should warn people who are reading Cowgirls for the first time that there will be some spoiler information. For instance, since Tom writes on a one-way street and doesn't re-write, it's amazing to me that the major themes of the book are laid out in page 1 and 2. It's obvious he'd done a lot of thinking before he started.
The way he used amoeba and water to demonstrate...I don't know how else to say it... the interconnection of all things, the flexibility of time and the indestrutability of life seems like a home-grown glimpse of a complex cosmos that reminds me of Hindi Tales without the multiple arms and bejeweledness.