When I told Atmananda this story, he seemed pleased with me.
He was pleased with the large turn-outs at his public lectures,
and he said I was doing an impeccable job overseeing the ten
or so WOOF! and poster distribution volunteers. Perhaps it was in
anticipation of unbridled expansion that, using doubt-diffusing humor,
he wrote and published the "Cult Of The Gwid Spreads Throughout
Rancho Bernardo" article (Issue #6; March, 1981): "In a seemingly
unstoppable tide of fanatic cultism, proponents, adherents and admirers
of the Gwid have firmly rooted themselves in Rancho Bernardo and
are expanding at an alarming rate. The concerned people of Rancho
Bernardo are helpless in the face of such determined behavior
and many have resigned themselves to their fate and joined ranks
with the lively followers of the Gwid...the Gwid reassured and won
the hearts of the entire Rancho Bernardo community when he gave
a public speech yesterday outlining his major beliefs and ideals.
Excerpts follow: 'I do not wish to own your sons and daughters,
merely to use them as a tax break. It is not the acquiring of
wealth that interests me, but rather the actual possession of it.
All else is useless to me unless it involves adventure, limber bodies,
cunning and chocolate.
Pages:
110
111
112
113
114
115
116
117
118
119
120
121
122
123
124
125
126
127
128
129
130
131
132
133
134