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Title: "WE ARE NOT ALONE" (but "THE TRUTH IS OUT THERE")
Review: I agree with the comments of "Am I alone?". And you are not, though it's scary to think what the Fadimans might become if ever we were to contact aliens & have strange dictionaries dropped in our laps..... I was a classmate of Anne's in her golden childhood, and she was just that kind of paradox: someone easier to love than to like, at times. Coming from a huge manse in Bel Air roughly the size of Windsor (hence, "My Ancestral Castles") she may have fallen early on for the "sizzle" more than the steak. Obviously, there's hope: her other book "The Spirit Catches You..." has a lot of good stuff in the pages, and she always was very clever. Very often too clever for her own good. My good wish for her, as ever, is that she forget about all that has been handed down to her from literary High Places, and consider what she's been given from Above. (Amen.)
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