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From: 34AEJ7D@CMUVM.BITNET (Bill Gorman)
Newsgroups: misc.handicap
Subject: scummy book victimizing disABLED
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Date: 19 Jun 91 18:28:13 GMT
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I recently noticed a book titled "Captain Quad", written by someone using
the name (may or may not be his/her real name) of Sean Costello. IMHO,
this is sensationalist garbage deliberately attempting to cash in on
non-disabled society's almost instinctive distrust/dislike of the disABLED.
In other words, the books smells of calculated exploitation.

The story is about a young man who becomes a paraplegic. He then turns
into sort sort of crazed psychic killer, due to all the "festering hatred"
his has for the world because of what happened to him. He leaves his
paralyzed body "astrally" and commits all sorts of crimes.  The cover of
the book displays a man in a wheelchair, displaying what is apparently intended
to be an insane, bloodthirsty leer.

If this lump of excrement appears in your local bookstores, let your
conscience be your guide as to your actions. The way the non-disabled
world laps this sort of thing up, some a**h*** is liable to want to
make a movie out of it. Yech!

Sez me,

W. K. (Bill) Gorman