26 - Wednesday, January 23, 1991 - North Shore News

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Publishers cash in on new age tide

call home is a being totally unconcerned with past

Gaithome's IN this glittering galaxy we expansively

lives, astral projection, getting in touch with itself or

breast augmentation.

It could be anywhere. Well,
almost anywhere...

Welcome to Earth, a charming
little chunk of Milky Way real
estate with the “‘lived in” look, a
planet conveniently situated 149.6
x 106 kilometres from the nearest
star — but far too close to Shirley
MacLaine.

Ignoring the implicit paradox,
the inhabitants of this 4,400 mil-
lion-year world are enjoying what
they term the ‘‘New Age.”’ Clues
as to why this apparently irrational
appellation was employed may be
found in its current publishing
lists. But then again...

Humans evidence a love-hate
relationship with inanimate objects
if Dancing With Your Books
(Plume/Penguin; $11.95) and
Fighting Food (Penguin; $10.95)
are indicative of behavioral pat-
terns.

Despite its bellicose title (inspir-

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ing images of hand-to-mouth
combat with broccoli and similarly
savage veggies) the latter is
allegedly concerning with eating
disorders while the former pur-
ports to be a guide to “‘the Zen
way of studying” and other hither-

to-unsuspected Terpsichorean
delights.

Oxymorons abound in the
nouvelle epoque with such books
as Practical Palmistry (Rider/
Century; SN/A) and The Fireside
Treasury of Light — An An-
thology of The Best In New
Age Literature (Simon &
Shuster/Musson; $15.50).

One of the more intriguing titles
though has to be Simon and

Here’s how you can

ACCORDING TO recent literary
surveys by news organizations
and Statistics Canada, one of
every four Canadians is func-
tionally illiterate.

Given the magnitude of this
national disgrace it boggles the
mind to discover that the fed-
eral government has slapped
the seven per cent goods and
services tax (GST) on books.

Here’s where you, the

fortunate 75 per cent who can
read and write, come in.

Send me your poems express-
ing your views on the GST.
Send as many entries as you
like, of any length. The best
will be printed in this column
at a tater date and the
winners awarded some great
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Wear A Walkman? ($22.95),
“the first consumer guide to the
latest devices and techniques for
mental workouts — to enhance
brain-power, creativity and con-
sciousness.”

But, if your brainpower exceed-
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you were in any way creative — or
conscious for that matter — would
you even consider buying it? (Send

book review

a self-addressed envelope and
$22.95 for my response.)

How To Get Pregnant With
The New Technology (Warner/
Random: $26) is only one of an
orgiastic cornucopia of pro-
vocative new titles guaranteed to
arrest earthlings’ libidos in mid-
spasm in Terran bookstores.

Visions of exceptionally personal
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Qver 1.1 million British Col-
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shouldn’t be any lack of rude

and witty entries. This is
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your fellow readers know
just how you feel about the

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Entries must be received ‘no
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be addressed to:

Mike Steele/BOOKS WEST

304 - 145 E. 4th St.

North Vancouver, B.C.

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