[PEN-L:4032] Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: secret societies <36DC3009.ADF558FD@uniserve.com> <3.0.3.32.19990302105020.006d978c@lmumail.lmu.edu>

[Carrol Cox <cbcox@xxxxxxxxx>]

Jim Devine wrote:

> At 01:37 PM 3/2/99 -0500, you wrote:
> >Al this is small time compared to the Free Masons.
>
> I hope you are kidding. Paranoia about the Freemasons has been around for a
> long time (at least since 1789, when some blamed the French Revolution on
> them) and should be avoided.

A friend of mine at Michigan back in the '50s collected bad books. He got
this one book from a library give-away of trash given them that they did
not want to catalogue. It was on "secret societies." The beauty of it as
a bad book was that for over 300 pages it never let the secret loose
of *what* secret societies it was talking about. It was probably the
masons, but it could have been Trappist monks, or university social
frats/sororities,
or something else. It was the all-time winner in the contest to see how
many words one could write without letting the reader know what you
were writing about. It was clear, however, that in some (also totally
unexplained) way secret societies were going to destroy humanity unless
they were destroyed first.

Carrol