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Going Clear: Scientology, Hollywood, and the Prison of Belief
by Lawrence Wright
read in April, 2013
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| Reading this I thought I'd learn more about Scientology's secret doctrine. Just what exactly do they teach at OT III (answer: it's crazy)... Who was L Ron Hubbard (answer: a crazy person, to say the least)... But this book is also a whole lot more. I...more | |
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“In the town where I live, I have frequently observed a phenomenon I have come to think of as Samish-Sex Marriage.”
― George Saunders, In Persuasion Nation
― George Saunders, In Persuasion Nation
“[In 1951] we were also told that the Russians could be parachuting from planes over our town at any time. These were the same Russians that my uncles had fought alongside only a few years earlier. Now they had become monsters who were coming to slit our throats and incinerate us. It seemed peculiar. Living under a cloud of fear like this robs a child of his spirit. It's one thing to be afraid when someone's holding a shotgun on you, but it's another thing to be afraid of something that's just not quite real.”
― Bob Dylan
― Bob Dylan
“They waited.
The door did not open.
The rain did not stop.
The darkness made a tent and covered them completely.”
― Timothy Findley, Not Wanted on the Voyage
The door did not open.
The rain did not stop.
The darkness made a tent and covered them completely.”
― Timothy Findley, Not Wanted on the Voyage
“And I don't know, it is one thing to look out a window, but when you are Out, actually Out, that is something very powerful, and how embarrassing was that, because I could not help it, I went down flat on my gut checking out those flowers, and the feeling of the one I chose was like the silk on that Hermes jacket I could never seem to get Reserved because Vance was always hogging it, except the flower was even better, it being very smooth and built in like layers? With the outside layer being yellow, and inside that a white thing like a bell, and inside the white bell-like thing were fifteen (I counted) smaller bell-like red things, and inside each red thing was an even smaller orange two-dingly-thing combo.”
― George Saunders, In Persuasion Nation
― George Saunders, In Persuasion Nation
Nature Calls
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