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make that bright mistake: I tell you-he's a dummy: aye, a fiction and a fake...
...rasps out his gospel. Motes encounters a series of characters even more bizarre than himself. There is Sabbath Lily Hawks, an adolescent degenerate who takes Motes as a temporary lover. Sabbath's daddy, a fake blind man, is one of Motes's competitors in street preaching; another is Onnie Jay Holy, whose religious interest runs mainly to the collection plate. Motes's career comes to a gruesome end when he deliberately blinds himself because a mean-spirited cop has pushed his unlicensed Essex over a cliff...
Well magnetized, she is drawn to a second guru's colony for would-be initiates. This turns out to be a clip joint where the believers turn in all their worldly goods to a matronly supply sergeant known as the "Divine Mother." Liz spots it all for a fake and heads back to Guru No. 1. In the meantime, steady old Charles has got himself into a diplomatic jam. Reminding herself of the guru's "Truth is in your own heart," Liz looks there, finds she still loves Charles, flies back to help him face the music...
...Commander Anthony Talerico, U.S.N., entitled "Sea of Decision." Almost word for word, many parts of it were identical with the so-called "Fechteter report." Instead of being a state paper, the arguments were the hazy theorizing of an unknown junior officer in an unofficial publication. Caught with a fake, Le Monde sadly concluded that there was "a great, similarity" in the documents, and added: "The 'Fechteler document...
...artificial figure. It must be perfectly done." Says Svanidze: "I learned afterward that the body of Lenin had been replaced by a substitute made at Kazan," and the decomposing body secretly cremated. The body that hundreds of the faithful now patiently queue to see, says Author Svanidze, is a fake...