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Perplexed man gets the point [Man now discovers needles embedded in brain from childhood]
The Globe and Mail ^ | 1/5/06 | GRAEME SMITH

Posted on 01/05/2006 6:34:23 AM PST by doc30

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To: freedomson
If you want to read a book about the life of a child in the Soviet Union during WWII then you might consider, "The Painted Bird" by Jerzey Kosinski.

I've heard that Kosinski has been exposed as a complete liar and the Painted Bird is fiction. If you look him up on wikipedia they have the details. He was a good actor in Reds.

41 posted on 01/05/2006 10:43:43 AM PST by wideminded
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To: Lazamataz

---I have needles in my brain, salt in my eyes, and lye on my tingly bits.---

"How base of you," she said, acerbically.


42 posted on 01/05/2006 10:45:54 AM PST by Knitting A Conundrum (Act Justly, Love Mercy, and Walk Humbly With God Micah 6:8)
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To: wideminded

Read the book and then ask yourself, what kind of mind could have made this stuff up. Again, if it's fiction, just what experiences in life could have shaped this imagination? You've never read anything even remotely like it.


43 posted on 01/05/2006 10:48:31 AM PST by freedomson (Tagline comment removed by moderator)
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To: GOPJ

Maybe it was mom who was also leaving the gas valve open and who pushed him into the river as a child. Poor guy. I hope he wins the big screen television.


44 posted on 01/05/2006 10:52:35 AM PST by ladyjane
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To: doc30
elderly neuropathologist gave him the results

A neuropathologist is a pathologist who specializes in brain and spinal tissue. They don't deal with patients. He must have seen a neurologist.

45 posted on 01/05/2006 10:54:58 AM PST by ladyjane
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To: Blzbba
""What *war* does to humans and families..."

Really? Were moms sticking needles into American babies' heads during WWI or WWII?

46 posted on 01/05/2006 11:03:33 AM PST by subterfuge (The Democrat party--hating American ideals for 60 years.)
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To: subterfuge

"Were moms sticking needles into American babies' heads during WWI or WWII?"


No, nor was America being invaded by the Wehrmacht and having its citizens slaughtered by the SS following closely behind. America's sovereignty hasn't been threatened by a foreign military since the War of 1812.


47 posted on 01/05/2006 11:06:36 AM PST by Blzbba (Sub sole nihil novi est)
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To: freedomson

Kosinki was proven to be a liar and fraud on many levels.

That is the kind of mind that writes books like his.


48 posted on 01/05/2006 11:14:30 AM PST by Eagle Eye (There ought to be a law against excess legislation.)
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To: subterfuge

See my post #35


49 posted on 01/05/2006 11:48:50 AM PST by doc30 (Democrats are to morals what and Etch-A-Sketch is to Art.)
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"The Painted Bird, ostensibly semi-autobiographical, was demonstrated to be a work of fiction: rather than wandering the Polish countryside, Kosin´ski had spent the war years in hiding with a Polish Catholic family and had never been appreciably mistreated. Kosin´ski defended himself by arguing that he had never maintained that the book was based on true events." - link
50 posted on 01/05/2006 1:11:19 PM PST by wideminded
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