The Great Wheel of Life is the endless cycle of birth, growth, decline, death and birth on which we seem to endlessly rotate. A common figure in Buddhist and some Sanskrit literature, as I recall.

Penetrated mysteries, Rapaire? You sure you don't mean mystresses? I only ask because, while penetrating mystresses tends to make a man feel proud (until apprehended), penetrating mysteries has quite the opposite effect, I am told.

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