This book incorporates Upanishad, Dhammapada and Bhagavad Gita as intertexts (in English translation) which are printed in italics. The main text deals with the author's daily journal on his trip around the United States in 1979. It is part of a 26 volume cosmological epic which will take as its hypertexts Ovid, Dante, Ariosto and Spencer. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.