Cogito, Ergo Sumana for 2005 September 30 (entry 2)

# 30 Sep 2005, 02:29PM: Word Power: As Jon Carroll has noted, book reviews can spoil you in another way:

The review is so wonderful I am almost afraid to read the book; more than once, particularly with the New York Review of Books, I have preferred the gloss to the text.

I won't go that far about today's main story in Salon, but it taught me the words "orthopraxy" and "frangible," and third page just keeps hitting nails on the head, one after another:

...they will retreat behind the carapace of "faith," which is really their projection of how things should be -- their prejudice. And since there is prejudice enough on both sides, we have arrived at an age of really horrifying division: people shouting across a gorge and hearing only the echoes of their own voices....

And the ending makes me think marriage will be wonderful.

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