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To: Edwarda who wrote (45944)	7/17/1999 11:54:00 PM
From: Jorj X Mckie	Respond to of 108807

E, now let's sit down and think together. Oh god no!!! We will never have a chance if you two team up. <g>

To: Edwarda who wrote (45944)	7/18/1999 12:23:00 AM
From: Sidney Reilly	Read Replies (5) \| Respond to of 108807

I have a question for everyone. Does any husband or wife have the right to write their personal thoughts or whatever and be allowed to keep them private? Or does the spouse have the marital right to read everything? Just curious.

To: Edwarda who wrote (45944)	7/18/1999 2:28:00 AM
From: E	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 108807

<<<, the one redeeming point of the book was its utility in shocking people into thinking about what human beings are capable of doing when the "social order" breaks apart.>>> I think, though, that because the book was essentially a hoax, the events in it having been demonstrated to have been fictitious, (it was a fiction book purporting to be autobiography,) its net effect, once its central lie was exposed, was to strengthen denial of the importance of such thinking. People thought, "Oh my God, so such things can really happen!" And then they learned that they were hoodwinked. I don't see how you could argue that the book is redeemed because it made people think about "what human beings are capable of doing..." when... it showed only what Kosinski was capable of making up. But Edwarda, I simply love your dear, civilized approach to argument, your "now let's sit down and think together." It makes me want very much to agree with you.... (And in fact we do agree about most things!)