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Perhaps Finer did not object to the "preaching" religious nature of the event, but instead found questionable that the Living Stones "covertly" sprung the message of the Christian Gospel on "a potentially unsuspecting audience." This implicitly singles out Christianity in the free marketplace of ideas as an idea that should given a warning label exante...
...artistic high point of the undistracted sense of irony that pervades our culture. In the singers' voices, I heard moments of beauty. But in their words, I understood no appreciation for the real. Even in the staged poetry lounge, the poet becomes a vehicle for nonsense, and then an object for beating...
Given that far-out environment, it seemed only natural last November when amateur astronomer Chuck Shramek called in to report he had spotted and photographed "a Saturn-like object" trailing the approaching Hale-Bopp comet. But even the most jaded Bell fans were excited when Courtney Brown, an Emory University professor, called to make a patently ludicrous announcement: his team of three psychic "remote viewers" had focused on Shramek's object and determined it was a spaceship full of aliens. Furthermore, Brown claimed, he had a photograph of the craft taken by a "Top-10-university astronomy professor...
Even after astronomers identified Shramek's "object" as an ordinary star and Bell himself exposed Brown's picture as a fake and his "Top-10" professor a no-show, the cult members were not dissuaded. When news of their suicide was reported, says Bell, "I started getting a lot of messages saying, 'Art Bell, you killed 39 people.' It's important to understand that the only person who ever said there was a spacecraft following Hale-Bopp was Courtney Brown...
...seeming crazy without being enlightening. They have some insight into this fact: as Beep says early in the play, "Maybe we really are just stupid." But when they suggest they are just like us--in Beep's words, "I guess we're all the same"--one feels inclined to object. The Day of the Dogs never gives us sufficient opportunity to do anything but distance ourselves from the characters...