tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33599480.post116192087292031491..comments2009-07-16T12:25:09.774-05:00Jasonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10677036603784028660noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33599480.post-92542803423060162009-07-16T12:25:09.774-05:002009-07-16T12:25:09.774-05:00You misquote the book at the top of this article, it should read:<br />“So then: Immob started as a joke. A joke that miscarried. But every one of the big Salvationist movements in history--from the Ten Commandments all the way down to the Mormons’ Later Day Sainthood and Christian Science and Jehovah’s Witnesses and Fletcherism and Bolshevik-Leninism and Dianetics and Orgonotics and Santa Monica Vedanta and Mandunga--every one of them MIGHT HAVE started out as a great Swiftean joke. That some humorless man got hold of and took literally.” Caps added.Krishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06143746413403530237noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33599480.post-65247806207988627022009-03-27T11:28:00.000-05:002009-03-27T11:28:00.000-05:00I almost can't believe somebody else read that book. It's indeed a total shame that it's not better known. It's great science-fiction, period. Very fresh and darkly funny still. A must read ... for all the reasons you mention, the good and the bad.alxhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03281272350255090917noreply@blogger.com