Naomi Klein

[Paul Mackin]

I could have read Nietzsche with impunity, so long as I didn't have any
impure thoughts about him.

On Wed, Dec 16, 2015 at 7:44 AM, Allan Balliett <allan.balliett at gmail.com>
wrote:

> 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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