EatKnitSleep on Nostr: I read this book earlier this year. Took me ages to finish, not because it's a ...
I read this book earlier this year. Took me ages to finish, not because it's a difficult read, but because it's full of paragraphs like this one where you just have to put the book down and appreciate it before moving on.
I particularly like his scathing but polite rebuttals. Like this one, about George Adamski, who claimed to be in contact with extra-terrestrials:
'They hailed from the planet Venus (whose 900*
Fahrenheit surface temperature we can now recognize as a barrier
to Adamski's credibility). '
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