Chapter FiveNeal picked a random spot on the Dr. Bronner's Pure-Castile-Soap bottle and read it. "Absolute cleanliness is Godliness! So teach the Moral ABC that unites all mankind free in our Eternal Father's great All-One-God-Faith. Listen Children Eternal Father Eternal One! Exceptions eternally? Absolute None!"
Standing in the bathroom, he paused to reflect upon precisely what in hell that meant. It was difficult to say. He had been studying Dr. Bronner's labels on and off for a couple of years and still didn't have a firm grasp on what the Essene rabbi soap makers were up to. But in a general way he felt they were on the right track.
He tried the bottle again. "Mao wrote: 'Marxism, once in power, is utterly unworkable! Has less value than cowdung! Its power is the gun!'"
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