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The Book of Laurence - 2 -
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Preface
It is a great pleasure to write a brief introduction to this
modest little pamphlet. My first task is to insulate my old
friend Xavier Hegel-Buber from the charge of crass
commercialism which has followed the popularity of his
Revelations since they first began to circulate on the Internet
in the autumn of 2006. I am myself responsible.
It never occurred to me that placing a single copy on my
own web-site¹ could possibly lead just five years later to a
thriving if still nascent religion; nor that a healthy internet
business (of which X-HB is largely unaware; he still uses a
typewriter) would be in the making. It is certainly the case
that the exegesis accompanying the `official tenets’ is no
longer all of Xavier’s making.² Nor does he own any shares
in X-HB press.
I confess that I am still not entirely sure whether Xavier
actually is poking fun at us in his understated English way,
or if rather he truly believes himself to be the literal vessel of
Larry. In any event, the genie is out of the bottle and
Larryism, like Scientology---but so far with no apparent
malignancy---is being taken entirely seriously.
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Sadly, the original was lost when a Dalhousie University file server was stolen
in 2009, so it will be left to future digital historians to untangle events.
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