Re: Useful instructions concerning the Halloween weekend for all

Mattis Fishman (mattis@argos.argoscomp.com)
Thu, 29 Oct 1998 13:36:22 -0500 (EST)

> You are in great danger.  So close to Halloween, too...I advise placing
> all of your Ayn Rand novels in a circle in the woods of the nearest
> backyard and covering them with heavy black cloth.  Sprinkle the ashes
> of some neutral entity (a Vonnegut novel, perhaps, or a _Harper's_
> article) over the cloth and tiptoe away....


But Matt, how ever does one turn a Vonnegut novel to ashes for such
a profane purpose?

As Bokonon says, "better to have the ashes of a Vonnegut novel than the 
words of the next ten authors on the Modern Library list".

Mattis