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From: kort@hounx.UUCP (B.KORT)
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Subject: Re: Bridge Across Infinity
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Date: Sat, 18-Jan-86 21:58:48 EST
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Posted: Sat Jan 18 21:58:48 1986
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Keywords: Richard Bach, SO's,  book

I just started reading Richard Bach's _Bridge Across Infinity_,
so I can't give you a personal report.  However, Bach states
that the book is autobiographical, with some identifying details
changed to protect the privacy of individuals.  Here's an excerpt
from the book jacket, written by Joan Stolier:

"In _Jonathan Livingston Seagull_, Bach wrote about a seagull who
practiced for a lifetime to begin to know the meaning of kindness
and love.  In _Illusions_ he wrote of a man surrounded by miracles,
yet privately haunted by the ghost of a wise mystical lovely lady
who lived just around the corner in time.

"_The Bridge Across Forever_ is Bach's quest to find her, to learn
of love and immortality not in the hereafter, but in the here and
now.  Yet caught in storms of wealth and success, disaster and
betrayal, he abandons the search, and the walls he builds for 
protection become his prison.

"Then he meets the brilliant and beautiful woman who can set him free,
and with her begins a transforming journey, a magical discovery of love
and joy.

"Here are adventures and air crashes, dream visits to the future and
the past, travels out of body as the couple planns to slip beyond
death.  Rising from a stubborn faith in perfect love, _Bridge Across
Forever_ shimmers with a human and finally cosmic intensity."

I note that one of the characters in the book is something akin to
an alter ego: a "retired Messiah".  I suppose that's like being a
mellowed zealot.  I'm excited about reading this book.  If you like,
I'll post some comments after I finish it.  Please let me know.

--Barry Kort