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Re: Carlos Castaneda, The teachings of Don Juan
frank murray (fmurray@pobox.com)
Sat, 25 Jan 1997 01:39:31 GMT
On Fri, 24 Jan 1997 13:57:01 -0700, Mark Richer
<markr@taipan.nmsu.edu> wrote:
>..........................................................................Today, we've
>got Carlos Castaneda, Chief Red Fox, Jamake Highwater, Ruth Beebe Hill
>and a whole bunch of others all becoming millionaires on the basis of
>out-and-out lies. And we've shown over and over again that they're lying
>through their teeth ... It seems the only thing that white people in this
>country are interested in hearing is lies.
the last sentence droops beneath the facts, but the point is well
taken...nor is the phenommena of assigning words to "indians"
new...the famous speech by chief seattle (sealth) was neither written
nor spoken by him...but it fit what some people wanted to
believe...just as the last sentence in the above post fits what others
wish to believe...
frank
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