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The Southern Heng Mountain (Hengshannan, also called Nanyue), one of China’s Five Sacred Mountains in the ancient Daoist pantheon, is 112 km (70 miles) south of Changsha.
Thus, writing in The New Yorker in December 1996, Louis Menand posited the breakdown of traditional monotheism into "genetic polytheism," in which personal behavior is attributable to an individualized genetic pantheon.
In this obscure pantheon, a place must be reserved for Klaus Kinski, the erratically gifted Polish-German actor and noted mal vivant , who tried to publish the English version of his autobiography in 1988 under the massively ironic title All I Need is Love . The book was caught in a copyright dispute between Random House and a West German publisher, with huge libel problems looming; it was withdrawn shortly after publication, and became one of the books most often stolen from public libraries.
A new biography of Billy Tipton--an obscure jazzman who was revealed, only at death, to have been a jazzwoman--elevates its subject into the "pantheon of legendary women who have successfully passed as men" (Holly Brubach, the New York Times Book Review ). Middlebrook, a professor at Stanford, uses Tipton to support the postmodernist contention that gender is a historic construction, but critics mostly wax prurient.
His pantheon also includes Helmut von Moltke, one of the leaders of the Kreisau Circle, a religious-philosophical group that spent most of its time imagining an ideal future German society.
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