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10.2. Eastern and Western Concepts of ‘Personality’ . . . 218
10.3. d’Alpuget’s Bestiary . . . . . . 223
10.3.1. The Three Gunas . . . . . 223
10.3.2. ‘Brutalised’ Characters . . . . . 225
10.3.3. Sutrisno—Java’s ‘Coming Man’ . . . 231
10.3.4. d’Alpuget’s ‘Conflict between Differing Consciences’ . 234
10.4. Koch’s Masks . . . . . . . 238
10.4.1 Koch’s ‘Dehumanising Search for Paradise’ . . 238
10.4.2. The Masks of Evil . . . . . 244
10.4.2.1. The Crow . . . . . 245
10.4.2.2. The ‘People Over There’,
and the War on the Edge of Reality . . 248
10.4.2.3. The Ogres . . . . . 249
10.4.2.4. Vietnamese Forces of dharma. . . 251
10.4.2.5. Les Autres—Dehumanised Soldiers of the Dark Age 253
10.5. Conclusion . . . . . . . 255
Chapter 11 The Masks of Doubles
11.1. Introduction . . . . . . . 257
11.2. d’Alpuget’s Australo-Asian Sacred Biography . . . 258
11.2.1. The Spiritual Journey of Alex Wheatfield
and Her ‘Dark Brother’ . . . . . 259
11.2.2. The Kiss of Betrayal . . . . . 265
11.3. C. J. Koch’s Eclectic Heroic Construction . . . 267
11.3.1. Guy Hamilton . . . . . . 268
11.3.2. Billy Kwan . . . . . . 270
11.3.2.1. The Masks of Kwan . . . . 270
11.3.2.2. The Dwarf . . . . . 272
11.3.2.2.1. The Disfigured, Noble ‘Other’ . 273
11.3.2.2.2. The Deified ‘Other’ . . . 275
11.3.2.2.3. Billy Kwan’s Mythopoeic,
Intertextually Constructed Self . 276
11.3.2.3. The Caste War . . . . 278
11.4. Billy Kwan and Guy Hamilton—Koch’s Heroic Double . . 281
11.4.1. The Deceiving Search for Identity . . . 281
11.4.2. The ‘Noosphere’, and the Metaphor of the Chariot . 283
11.4.3. Koch’s ‘Double Man’ as Consummate Hero . . 285
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