Mutant Message (was Re: Re Look out! long hair gun loon!)

Damien Broderick (damien@ariel.ucs.unimelb.edu.au)
Fri, 19 Dec 1997 13:30:00 -0500


>Have you ever read any books written by
>people who have actually gotten to spend time with aborigines, who have
>closely studied their culture? If you have you'd find that the aborigines
>are actually a very peaceful, intelligent, and wise people. May I suggest
>Mutant Message Down Under by Marlo Morgan.

The first point has some merit. Sadly, be warned that the book you cite is
a brainless fabrication, a New Age hoax. (I gather that the publisher,
following its debunking, now reprints it as a `novel'.)

Damien Broderick