The king and the corpse: Tales of the soul's conquest of evil. (When words don't fail).(Brief Article)

The Lady works in mysterious ways, and the morning after the tragedy in New York, I unexpectedly found on the bedside table my ancient, dog-eared copy of Heinrich Zimmer's The King and the Corpse: Tales of the Soul's Conquest of Evil. I accepted this odd gift of chance and let the book fall open, which, with uncanny prescience, it did to page two of the tale called "Abu Kasem's Slippers."

Briefly, Abu Kasem is a miser who attempts to rid himself of a tattered pair of old slippers. But miraculously, the more times he throws them away, the more they return to wreak havoc ...

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