[lit-ideas] Re: Rapture

British Rail regret to announce that the Rapture Train has been cancelled.  
There is, however, an ongoing ferret aspect:

"Hi! I am wondering if anyone would be capable of taking care of my pet ferret 
until the begging of August."

I bought four books in a thrift store today, very beautiful, each from a series 
titled, "Little Journeys."  Little Journeys to the Homes of Great Philosophers 
had a broken spine, so I didn't buy it.  Little Journeys to the Homes of Great 
Businessmen begins, "In Germany, the land of philosophy, when the savants sail 
into a sea of doubt, some one sets up the cry, 'Back to Kant!'  In America, 
when professed democracy grows ambitious and evolves a lust for power, men say, 
'Back to Jefferson!'  In business, when employer forgets employee and both 
forget their better manhood, we say, 'Back to Robert Owen!'  We will not go 
back to Robert Owen: we will go on to Robert Owen, for his philosophy is still 
in the vanguard..."

They don't write 'em like that any more.

David Ritchie,
Where Rain Is

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