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Title: Take Me for a Ride
Coming of Age in a Destructive Cult

Author: Mark E. Laxer

Release Date: June 19, 2008 [EBook #162]

Language: English

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TAKE ME FOR A RIDE
Coming Of Age In A Destructive Cult
by Mark E. Laxer
Copyright 1993 by Mark E. Laxer
mlaxer@cap.gwu.edu

Take Me For A Ride

* * *

One flew east,
One flew west,
One flew over the cuckoo's nest.

--Childhood nursery rhyme
quoted in One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest
by Ken Kesey

Fly me over the cuckoo's nest,
To your *golden* side,
I don't care if you're the cuckoo--
Take me for a ride...

--Agni

TAKE ME FOR A RIDE

Coming Of Age In A Destructive Cult

by

Mark E. Laxer

1993 Outer Rim Press Copyright 1993 by Mark E. Laxer

No part of this book may be reproduced in any manner without written
permission from the publisher, unless the intent is to benefit
humankind.

For *physical* book order information, or to contribute to Laxer's
legal defense fund :( and write-another-book fund :)

write:
Outer Rim Press
4431 Lehigh Road, #221
College Park, MD 20740
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mlaxer@cap.gwu.edu

Grateful acknowledgment is made to Simon & Schuster, Inc., for
permission to reprint an excerpt from Gandhi: A Memoir by William
Shirer. Copyright (c) 1979 by William Shirer.

Library of Congress Catalog Card Number: 93-085777

ISBN 0-9638108-3-9

Initially printed and posted in the United States of America

To Patsy Sims--inspired teacher, intriguing storyteller, intrepid
journalist.

Author's Note

Names in the following story have been changed, except for those
already mentioned in the press.

Contents

1. Bicycle Ride--Walden
2. Zapped!
3. The Joining
4. The Community