Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site decwrl.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!ucbvax!decwrl!arndt@lymph.DEC From: arndt@lymph.DEC Newsgroups: net.books,net.flame,net.religion,net.philosophy Subject: Night Visions Message-ID: <3734@decwrl.UUCP> Date: Mon, 19-Aug-85 00:05:46 EDT Article-I.D.: decwrl.3734 Posted: Mon Aug 19 00:05:46 1985 Date-Received: Tue, 20-Aug-85 21:23:06 EDT Sender: daemon@decwrl.UUCP Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation Lines: 34 Xref: watmath net.books:2178 net.flame:11600 net.religion:7423 net.philosophy:2334 It came to me last night in a moment of sernedipity . . . THE KEY TO RICH ROSEN!!!!!! I had fallen asleep on the couch clutching only my Lugar and my Teddy when as if from the cave of the Deli Oracle I heard the voice of Lex Luthar (my hero!). You see, the telly was going full bore with the movie Superman since I had cut a deal with my eldest daughter to the effect that she could stay up and watch it if she got up on time the next morning with a smile - I know, I know, I hated to take advantage of her like that but if she is ever going to learn to be clever (beauty AND brains being so rare in the weaker sex, don't you think?) I'm just going to have to train her to get by with more than being cute. Anyway, in my semiconcious state I heard the voice of Lex, over that of Rambo, (my other hero!) and as soon as I realized where I was and that Lex was real and Rambo was not, it sunk in to my brain what Lex had just said. He had said, "Some people can read Tolstoy's WAR AND PEACE and come away thinking it was a great adventure story and some people can read the wrapper on a piece of gum and discover the meaning of the universe." AND THEN IT HIT ME! Rich Rosen had once submitted a book review to net.books on THE NAME OF THE ROSE and called it a 'only a great adventure story'!! I recalled feeling shock and pity at the time but Lex really pulled it all together for me! Rich, dispite his name, is not Jewish - but a Philistine!!!! So one more piece in the big puzzle falls into place, I thought, as the three of us slipped back into the jungle with Rambo. Keep chargin' Ken Arndt