Pax-salon Mailing List: Conversational Salon (The Road)

[patty (pattypax]

Hi,  This Tuesday is The Little Book of the Odd Month Club and the  
book it The Road.  Below is one of the "saloners" description and  
reason for this book.

June is Torture Awareness Month and June 1 at the salon we will be  
viewing the film Torturing Democracy.

Thanks,
patty

> Why read The Road, by Cormac McCarthy? The Road is the next  
> selection by the Madhatter's TeaHouse Little Book of the Odd Month  
> Club. It will be discussed at the Salon on the last Tuesday of May,  
> May 25. It is a book of timely importance. McCarthy has written the  
> bare bones of a story for survival. Each turning of the page is an  
> experience in  existential terror. Why has he written such a book?  
> As a warning? As a teaching? Though a simple tale there are layers  
> of meaning to unravel. Come and help us to unravel them.
> The New Busy is not the too busy. Combine all your e-mail accounts  
> with Hotmail. Get busy.