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Thursday, June 16, 2005

People can believe three impossible things before breakfast, and even more the rest of the day

True story:

Somewhere along the gulf coast of Florida, between Fort Myers and Naples. a strange sect had a compound, back in the 1930's. They believed that the earth was round, all right, but people lived on the inside nstead of the outside surface of it--like living inside an orange. It was all country back then, and they didn't bother anybody, so they were left alone, inside their orange.They collected many books in support of their theories, and being a librarian, I met their librarian at a county-wide meeting. But by that time, nothing was left except the library.

The end came when their leader died. He was supposed to resurrect himself, you see, and didn't. They left his body for a few days to give him an honest chance to come back to life, as promised. Finally, the Lee County sheriff had to intervene--you know the weather in sub-tropical climates. The group lost faith and shortly after disbanded.

Those still left alive probably believe hat the World Trade Center was demollished from within.

1 comment:

miriam sawyer said...

I guess if it were big enough, you couldn't see the people on the other side. Maybe the trees would hide them.