From Vietnam, Land of the Dead, Ngo Ton Long, a former university lecturer in that late Republic, had been exterminated and entombed for eleven years before he was brought in the spirit to The Lands of Death, East and West of Eden, ancient and not-so-ancient, modern as well as postmodern.By 1994, his long-erased name-at-birth had been legally buried, and in this postmodern world of political intrigue, military violence, and global terrorism, the latest movements of his thoughts, coming up to history and religion, have become so extremely controversial that it is not time yet for him to render them into English.