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To: Neocon who wrote (2809)5/17/2000 10:00:00 AM
From: Tom Clarke  Read Replies (1) of 3246
 
Thanks for mentioning "A Canticle for Leibowitz." I meant to read that a couple of years ago, bit it slipped away and kind of receded from consciousness. My curiosity was piqued by an essay by Walker Percy who wrote, "A Canticle for Leibowitz is like a cipher, a coded message, a book in a strange language....Like a cipher, the book has a secret. But, unlike a cipher, the secret can't be told. Telling it ruins it. But it is not like "giving away" a mystery by telling the outcome. The case is more difficult."

He goes on to say that many reviewers of the book simply didn't get it. At the end of the essay he asks, "When he finishes Canticle, the reader can ask himself one question and the answer will tell whether he got the book or missed it. Who is Rachel? What is she?"

Do you know what he's talking about here? If you do, don't tell me, I plan to get the book later today.
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