Chapter 9: Rationalization of Mankind

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I encountered the Sharper Image store [point “d”] where I spent some

time looking at all the gadgets that they had. Suffice to say that if you are rolling in money, you can get a lot of physical gadgets. A wise man once taught me to watch out for assets because someone has to take care of them. It is wise advice and I didn’t buy anything. The B. Dalton bookstore was

supposed to be in the same area but I could not find it. B. Dalton stores in Minnesota are rather large ones and I was looking for a big bookstore sign.

I couldn’t find the big B. Dalton sign I was looking for so I walked up

to the next level thinking it was upstairs. I still couldn’t find it so I said “tough” and proceeded to leave the complex. I walked half way back on the second level to where I started from and studied another directory to locate a bathroom. I found that the nearest bathroom was back towards the Sharper Image store but in a hidden hallway next to Macy’s second floor entrance.

The map above doesn’t convey store layouts and the hidden hallway well.

After a brief restroom visit [2nd floor point “e”], I realized that I must be directly over the B. Dalton store if it even existed. So I went back

downstairs and just before Macy’s and hidden with a very small sign, I found the bookstore [point “f”]. It was the smallest B. Dalton bookstore I’ve ever seen.

I remember commenting to myself how small the store was. As I walked in my eyes started to scan the limited shelves for books of interest. Immediately I spotted the book. It had a big cross on its cover for Christ. I approached the book with a strong and compelling spiritual sense that I had

to see it. When I arrived, I found that the title read: † Christ

A Crisis in the Life of God2

It was written by an ex-Jesuit Priest named Jack Miles and published by Alfred A. Knoft, 2001. Jack is now a journalist. Think objectivity here or the lack of it depending upon your perspective of journalists. He also wrote another book entitled “God: A Biography.”