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Article: Garner takes on madnesses of the millennium
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- Chicago Sun-Times
- Article date:
- April 13, 1997
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Apocalypse Wow!
A Memoir for the End of Time. By James Finn Garner. Simon &
Schuster. $14.95.
Give this much credit to all those UFO fanatics,
millennium-fixated mystics and assorted true believers congregating
at the edges of society, clamoring for a spot in the mainstream: At
least they're sincere.
Whichever ludicrous bit of doctrinaire ignorance they cling to,
no matter what lunatic philosophy they armor themselves with against
an indifferent cosmos, they inevitably seem to believe in it
wholeheartedly.
Until the next thing comes along.
Sincerity, in fact, is their problem. No iota of doubt troubles
them, no hesitation enters their minds as they endorse dogma that
most rational ...