Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site pyuxd.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!bonnie!akgua!whuxlm!whuxl!houxm!ihnp4!mhuxn!mhuxr!ulysses!gamma!pyuxww!pyuxd!rlr From: rlr@pyuxd.UUCP (Rich Rosen) Newsgroups: net.religion Subject: Re: Crowley's sense of humor. Message-ID: <1155@pyuxd.UUCP> Date: Thu, 4-Jul-85 02:14:25 EDT Article-I.D.: pyuxd.1155 Posted: Thu Jul 4 02:14:25 1985 Date-Received: Fri, 5-Jul-85 07:36:15 EDT References: <437@cmu-cs-k.ARPA>, <5429@cbscc.UUCP> Organization: Whatever we're calling ourselves this week Lines: 17 > The point of all this is that some people do not have the ability to > put things in perspective. Some will swallow anything that is held > to be true by "authority". If Crowley is joking, there are people > out there who will not understand this. Look at all the crap > in bookstores on astrology and the occult. There are people who > will accept chunks of this at face value. I think that it would be > a time bomb if his "joke" was placed in with the astrology and occult > section. > > Padraig Houlahan. That's the risk with satire. Without a warning label on it, some people won't know the difference between satire and the real thing. Partly because truth is stranger than fiction, even the most ridiculous fiction. -- Like a sturgeon (GLURG!), caught for the very first time... Rich Rosen ihnp4!pyuxd!rlr