As The Master’s writing has lately become recognized by many important, powerful people as critical to our successful future, I believe that a terrible disservice is done by keeping works hidden which were either rejected or incomplete. These include her unpublished first novel, “I Am Better Than You All” and its sequel “Now Grovel!”. It also includes her incomplete autobiography (instructions were left that it be completed upon her death by one of her acolytes worthy to do so–of course, none could be found and it remains, eternally unfinished) which she had tentatively titled “I Am My Own God”, and a last novel wherein the followers of John Galt assert control over the planet, tentatively titled “Suck It, Losers!”.

On another note, spent some time in Indigo looking at bargain non-fiction books. 27 different hardcover cookbooks dedicated to recipes for use with a crockpot. “150 Best Slow Cooker Recipes”, “Comprehensive Crockpot Cooking”, “Couch Potatoes’ Crockpot Comforts”, “Slow Down and Live with Slow Cooker Meals”, “The Slow Cooker Bible”, “The Crockpot Bible”, “The Stew and Soup Bible”… and 16 other “Bibles”. One question verified, in the Religion and Philosophy section (why are those together?) there is, indeed, “The Bible Bible”.

I meant to ask Noam Chomsky if he felt slighted or gratified that Michael Moore haters had appropriated his title and twisted it into “Manufacturing Dissent”. This is the sad truth of media today (see: shadowsofliberty.org): it is openly agnostic about truth. Question: when will they begin to question the tenets of basic arithmetic? Answer: they have, if one judges by coverage of the Occupy movement and Wall Street excess.