John Williams (1922-1994) was born and raised in northeast Texas. Despite a talent for writing and acting, Williams flunked out of a local junior college after his first year. He reluctantly joined the war effort, enlisting in the Army Air Corps, and managing to write a draft of his first novel while there. Once home, Williams found a small publisher for the novel and enrolled at the University of Denver, where he was eventually to receive both his B.A. and M.A., and where he was to return as an instructor in 1954.
Shades of Sol Spalding!! Should keep you safe from the Danites.
I just realised that if Runtu was born in 1922 there might be hope for me after all. Since I'm only in my 60s I can still wish to be like Runtu when I grow up (;=)
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Maksutov: "... if you give someone else the means to always push your buttons, you're lost."
Runtu wrote:It's particularly sad that he died long before his book was published.
An author dying before his book was published is well within the realm of possibility.
If the author had died long before his book was written, well, there's a story!
I'm thinking 'Moroni' here. Only I suppose in order to be considered as dead, you need to have lived first ...
Zadok: I did not have a faith crisis. I discovered that the Church was having a truth crisis. Maksutov: That's the problem with this supernatural stuff, it doesn't really solve anything. It's a placeholder for ignorance.
John Williams (1922-1994) was born and raised in northeast Texas. Despite a talent for writing and acting, Williams flunked out of a local junior college after his first year. He reluctantly joined the war effort, enlisting in the Army Air Corps, and managing to write a draft of his first novel while there. Once home, Williams found a small publisher for the novel and enrolled at the University of Denver, where he was eventually to receive both his B.A. and M.A., and where he was to return as an instructor in 1954.
Seems like Mr. Williams has been misleading us about his history. What other tidbits are out there just waiting to be unearthed?
I would suggest this is evidence that Runtu is just another sock puppet.
"Any over-ritualized religion since the dawn of time can make its priests say yes, we know, it is rotten, and hard luck, but just do as we say, keep at the ritual, stick it out, give us your money and you'll end up with the angels in heaven for evermore."
~Those who benefit from the status quo always attribute inequities to the choices of the underdog.~Ann Crittenden ~The Goddess is not separate from the world-She is the world and all things in it.~
Hey, Runtu, I read the book on Kindle and loved it. I was a missionara de bienestar in Honduras in the early 80's. Your book brought back a lot of memories!
The person who is certain and who claims divine warrant for his certainty belongs now to the infancy of our species. Christopher Hitchens
Faith does not give you the answers, it just stops you asking the questions. Frater