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In 1984, as part of the press for the tour I was
doing in Japan, I was asked to go to Bali and
speak about the future with the prince of Ouboud.
Now the idea was that I would represent the
Western world, the prince the Southern world, and
the Japanese press representative would represent
whatever was left. The conversations would be
published in a large book, scheduled for release
one year after the concert tour. Now as press this
didn̢۪t really seem like a great way to advertise
concerts but it sounded like fun anyway.
And I stayed at the palace in one of the former
king̢۪s harem houses. Each of the king̢۪s wives
had had her own house guarded by a pair of
animals, a bear and a fox for example. By the time
I got there, years later, the menagerie had
dwindled a bit. My house was guarded by two
tropical fish. Bali was extremely hot in the
afternoons and the conversations with the prince
drifted along randomly from topic to topic. The
prince was a bon vivant trained in Paris and he
spoke excellent English and when he wasn̢۪t in
the palace he was out on the bumpy back roads
racing cars. So we talked about cars, a subject I
know absolutely nothing about, and I felt that as
far as representing the Western world was going, I
was failing pretty dismally. Then, on the second
night, the prince served an elaborate feast of
Balinese dishes. At the end of the meal, the
conversation slowed to a halt, and after a few
minutes of silence he asked:
— Would you like to see the cremation tapes of
my father?
The tapes were several hours long and were a
record of the elaborate three-month ceremony shot
by the BBC. When the king died the whole country
went to work, building an enormous funeral pyre
for him. After months of preparation, during which
time the corpse continues to reside in the living
room, they hoisted the body to the top of this
rickety, extremely flammable structure, and lit a
match. The delicate tower crumbled almost
immediately, and the king̢۪s body fell to the
ground with a sickening thud. Suddenly, everyone
began to cheer.
Later, I learned that the Balinese believe that
the soul is a bird and that when the body falls it
shakes the bird loose and gives it a hit start on
its way to heaven.
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