a little something on the Salinger Mailing List

Greg Montalbano Greg.Montalbano at ucop.edu
Thu Jun 5 10:33:35 CDT 1997


>
>Don't forget that most people don't read more than a book or two a year
>(if that), but that millions world-wide read from the Bible daily or
>weekly.
>
>There are a lot of untouched Bibles out there, but it's also got to be
>among the _most_ read books today.
>
>Let's not get so caught up in our little liberal humanist worlds that we
>forget about that crazy "reality" thing.


Well, don't YOU get so caught up in your little crypto-fascist reationary
"the-Lord-gave-me-two-strong-hands-so-I-could-grab-as-much-as-I-could-for-my
self-with-both-of-them" captialist world that you forget that most people
don't "read" the holly babble -- they consult it, like an oracle.




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