"John Dalmas - The Second Coming" - читать интересную книгу автора (Dalmas John)

"Honey, it's a cult! And you know what happened to Laura."
He did know. Laura had suicided. Her favorite cousin. "That was the Church of
Universal Truth," he said, "not Millennium."


"They're both cults."


"And because the Truthees screwed some people over, broke up some families,
Millennium is dangerous?"


Her lips thinned. "And I'm afraid of that man!"


"Of Lor Lu? Why?"


"He'sтАФstrange!"


Ben smiled. "Strange is what your parents call me. Why they don't like me. That and
because nominally my mother's Catholic and my father's a Jew. With a touch of
Falasha at that, though they don't know it. But you married me."


"And he knew you were in the basement! Doing laundry!"


Ben nodded, a completely inadequate response.


"And Ngunda Aran is a guru," she went on. "He writes a syndicated new age column.
You read it every day."


"Sweetheart, the term for people who write columns is columnist, not guru. And I
don't read it every day. He only does two a week."


"That's beside the point! He is a guru! And this Lor Lu introduced himself to me as a
'holy man extraordinary'! Ye gods, Ben! And he knew you were in the basement . . ."


"Doing laundry. Right."
"How could he have known that?"