Naomi Klein

[Allan Balliett]

Had my folks believed in psychiatry, I would have been sent after they
caught me reading Shakespeare out loud alone in my room on more than one
ocassion. An apparently well known symptom of insanity

Don't get me started on how much suspicion staying too long on the toilet
with a book could arouse....

-Allan in WV, where iPads are for more than porn

On Wed, Dec 16, 2015 at 7:34 AM, Keith Davis <kbob42 at gmail.com> wrote:

> My mother crying at the dinner table, saying, You've just read too many
> books...
>
> Www.innergroovemusic.com <http://www.innergroovemusic.com>
>
> On Dec 16, 2015, at 5:24 AM, Allan Balliett <allan.balliett at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> Well, be thankful that you didn't have to climb out of  a deep magical
> thinking childhood household to be able to embrace a humanist world view in
> an almost guilt-free fashion as many of us have had to. Shoulders to stand
> on, rather than run away from.
>
> I'm reminded of when my 10th grade bone fide John Bircher civics teacher
> called my mother and told her I was reading "the wrong books."  He was
> thinking "Nietzsche,"  but apparently he didn't dare to be specific, which
> left her thinking "pornography," which led to some pretty strange ("you
> know, those kind of books") conversations between she and I before at least
> I understood what was going on. OK, I'll stop now.
>
> -Allan in WV
>
>
>
> On Tue, Dec 15, 2015 at 10:46 PM, kelber at mindspring.com <
> kelber at mindspring.com> wrote:
>
>> Raised by card-carrying lefty Jewish parents, but not sure if I have an
>> edge.
>>
>> Laura
>>
>>
>> Allan Balliett <allan.balliett at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> OMG! Which is her NEW BOOK?
>>
>> I wish I had been born the son of radical parents.
>>
>> Even Jewish parents could have given me the edge I appear to have needed.
>>
>> -Allan in Shepherdstown, WV,  where our Synagogue is a Presbyterian church
>>
>> On Tue, Dec 15, 2015 at 5:20 PM, Keith Davis <kbob42 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> I'm 60 pages into her new book. Of course, it's unsettling, but seems
>>> like we all need to hear it.
>>>
>>> Www.innergroovemusic.com <http://www.innergroovemusic.com>-
>>> Pynchon-l / http://www.waste.org/mail/?listpynchon-l
>>>
>>
>>
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