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        <title><![CDATA[In reply to #43: As I read on in the novel, I did get this as part of...]]></title>
        <link>http://www.enotes.com/book-club/group/discuss/questions-for-author-will-clarke-2433?start=40#44</link>
        <description><![CDATA[In reply to #43: As I read on in the novel, I did get this as part of your message.  Also, once I got to reading I couldn't stop. I finished the novel a couple of weeks ago and found it both thought prevoking and at times very funny.  ]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Wed, 7 May 2008 13:27:11 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Normal is definitely relative, and I think that today's trend in...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Normal is definitely relative, and I think that today's trend in psychology/ psychiatry to have everyone strive toward a golden mean is unattainable and undesireable. That said, I think that there is something to have a healthy mental state and balance in your life.]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Wed, 7 May 2008 13:21:36 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[In reply to #36:Like I said earlier, I wouldn't look at the brand of...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[In reply to #36:Like I said earlier, I wouldn't look at the brand of religion that Ikshu pratices to be even mildly representative of mainstream Hinduism. Ikshu's organization is a cult just like The Branch Davidians or Jim Jones  or the Japanese Aum Doomsday cult.  These cults have their roots in mainstream religions be it Christianity, Hinduism, Buddhism, whatever, but they distort these religions with extremism, fear and apocryphia.   ]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Sun, 4 May 2008 11:13:25 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[In reply to #37:Nope, sorry, never read Blood Music. But it sounds like...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[In reply to #37:Nope, sorry, never read Blood Music. But it sounds like something I would like.Most of my thinking about DNA comes from scientists like Rupert Sheldrake and Richard Dawkins.]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Sun, 4 May 2008 11:06:54 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[In reply to #35:I was heavliy influenced by Catch-22 AND Slaughterhouse...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[In reply to #35:I was heavliy influenced by Catch-22 AND Slaughterhouse 5. ]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Sun, 4 May 2008 11:03:43 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[In reply to #34:I agree. Ikshu was an American, a crazed one at that,...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[In reply to #34:I agree. Ikshu was an American, a crazed one at that, who had taken Hindu beliefs and bastardized them to fit his own apocolyptic mythology. Hopefully readers will no more see Ikshu's brand of fanaticism as Hinduism any more than they would see David Koresh as representative of Christianity. ]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Sun, 4 May 2008 11:01:55 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[For some reason, many paranoid schizophrentics believe that the...]]></title>
        <link>http://www.enotes.com/book-club/group/discuss/discussion-for-chapters-7-9-2729#2</link>
        <description><![CDATA[For some reason, many paranoid schizophrentics believe that the government, especially the CIA are out to get them.  At this point in the novel, do you feel that Travis is mentally ill?  What does and does not make sense to you?  ]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Fri, 2 May 2008 11:18:05 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Discussion for Chapter 10-12]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[How do you define &quot;normal&quot;?  Is Travis capable of determining what is and is not normal?]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Fri, 2 May 2008 11:16:29 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Discussion for Chapters 7-9]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[For some reason, many paranoid schizophrentics believe that the government, especially the CIA are out to get them.  At this point in the novel, do you feel that Travis is mentally ill?  What does and does not make sense to you?  ]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Fri, 2 May 2008 11:15:07 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[In reply to #38: I made the mistake of trying to read the book during my...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[In reply to #38: I made the mistake of trying to read the book during my breaks at school. The other day, I was reading during my planning period, and a student came in to ask me a question. I just happened to be on page 23 at the time. I quickly closed the book, but not before the student saw the chapter title. Needless to say, I was very embarrassed.]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Wed, 23 Apr 2008 13:22:40 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[In reply to #17: I have been thinking a long time how to word this...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[In reply to #17: I have been thinking a long time how to word this without being offensive, but I completely disagree.  Profanity, without purpose, is just profanity.  It's not fashionable.  I feel I need to clean my ears and Clear Eyes my eyes after each reading, although the story has merit.  It seems to me (not just because I live in the &quot;fly over&quot; states where the Bible belt is thickest) that of all the millions of words in...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Wed, 23 Apr 2008 13:08:22 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Hello again, Will. This might be a dumb question, but nothing ventured,...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Hello again, Will. This might be a dumb question, but nothing ventured, nothing gained. Have you read Greg Bear's book Blood Music? The reason why I ask is that your discussion of sentient DNA reminds me of that book. It's all about how a researcher discovers a way to develop intelligent bacteria, which then set about changing all DNA cells in all living things. Just wondered if that might have been an influence for you.]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Tue, 22 Apr 2008 20:37:02 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[In reply to #34: I should have been more sensitive in my reply.  I have...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[In reply to #34: I should have been more sensitive in my reply.  I have been to the Krishna temple here in Dallas that Clarke describes, and my take was almost identitical to his. As you continue to read the novel, you may see how cultish indeed this sect can be, at least for some of the adherents.On the flip side, I have also been to Hindu temples in Irving, where the tone and respect was altogether different from the Krisha experience in...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Thu, 17 Apr 2008 19:51:21 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Will-  We were talking on the discussion boards about Travis' mental...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Will-  We were talking on the discussion boards about Travis' mental state.  Were you at all influenced by Joseph Heller's Catch-22? (Particularly, &quot;Just because you're paranoid doesn't mean they aren't after you.&quot;_]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Thu, 17 Apr 2008 19:26:09 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[In reply to #3: Good point.  One of my favorite quotes is from Heller's...]]></title>
        <link>http://www.enotes.com/book-club/group/discuss/discussion-for-chapter-4-6-2577#4</link>
        <description><![CDATA[In reply to #3: Good point.  One of my favorite quotes is from Heller's Catch-22&quot;Just because you're paranoid doesn't mean they aren't after you.&quot;  Think I'll pose this to Will to see if he had this in mind at all...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Thu, 17 Apr 2008 19:24:00 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[In reply to #28: I hope that readers do not see the Krishna brand of...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[In reply to #28: I hope that readers do not see the Krishna brand of Hinduism as Hinduism itself. Just as with any religion there are many different views and practices within the religion. The &quot;Vishnu Temple&quot; in the book seems cultish and almost absurd. For the Hindus in my family, religion is personal and respectful.]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Thu, 17 Apr 2008 19:13:13 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[In reply to #1: I do think that Travis's fears and premonitions are...]]></title>
        <link>http://www.enotes.com/book-club/group/discuss/discussion-for-chapter-4-6-2577#3</link>
        <description><![CDATA[In reply to #1: I do think that Travis's fears and premonitions are proving to be real. However, I don't think this means he is not mentally unbalanced. Both could be at work here.&#160;]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Thu, 17 Apr 2008 19:01:31 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Will Clarke said in response to our questions that he envisioned a James...]]></title>
        <link>http://www.enotes.com/book-club/group/discuss/discussion-for-chapter-4-6-2577#2</link>
        <description><![CDATA[Will Clarke said in response to our questions that he envisioned a James Bond-like connection between Vishnu and the spy: &quot; I began to see all these parallels between Vishnu and James Bond. Vishnu is the Preserver, the One who wakes up from sleeping on a bed of cobras while his wife rubs his feet. Vishnu only wakes up to save the world. Bond has a similar situation. All these &quot;goddesses&quot; lounging with him and then he has to...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Thu, 17 Apr 2008 16:48:49 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Discussion for Chapter 4-6]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[In reply to #3: Good point.  One of my favorite quotes is from Heller's Catch-22&quot;Just because you're paranoid doesn't mean they aren't after you.&quot;  Think I'll pose this to Will to see if he had this in mind at all...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Thu, 17 Apr 2008 16:44:12 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[In reply to #30:   A writer like Faulkner, or Steinbeck, or Clarke, ...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[In reply to #30:   A writer like Faulkner, or Steinbeck, or Clarke,  chooses to render speech as s/he hears it, not moralize about it.  As for worrying about little ears, well, I say that it is up to the parent to monitor their child's leisure activities.  Some things are for children, some aren't.  Don't take (or rent) an R rated movie, don't put a computer in a closed room.  ]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Wed, 16 Apr 2008 04:36:27 PST</pubDate>
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