On Jul 2, 2007, at 2:46 AM, TurquoiseB wrote:
--- In [email protected], "Patrick Gillam" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
In skimming the newsletter, I saw reference to
the fences around the "fortune-creating"
homes. The vastuu fences reminded me of
something in a book I just finished, *The Ladies'
No. 1 Detective Agency." Apparently, in Botswana,
it's customary for a home to have a knee-high
fence around it. When visitors approach the home,
they stop at the fence and hail the inhabitants,
rather than walk up to the door and knock. I
detected a similarity between this African fencing
custom and the vastuu fences of Sthapatya-vedic homes.
...the Prince Prospero was happy and dauntless and
sagacious. When his dominions were half depopulated,
he summoned to his presence a thousand hale and light-
hearted friends from among the knights and dames of
his court, and with these retired to the deep
seclusion of one of his castellated abbeys. This was
an extensive and magnificent structure, the creation
of the prince's own eccentric yet august taste. A
strong and lofty wall girdled it in. This wall had
gates of iron. The courtiers, having entered, brought
furnaces and massy hammers and welded the bolts. They
resolved to leave means neither of ingress or egress
to the sudden impulses of despair or of frenzy from
within. The abbey was amply provisioned. With such
precautions the courtiers might bid defiance to
contagion. The external world could take care of
itself. In the meantime it was folly to grieve, or
to think.
In from the "just when you think it can't get any weirder"
dept--they've even made grass seed a no-no. There's a sign up around
the new houses saying you're not supposed to bring it into the "vastu."
Sal
