Criminal Element features an article by Eliot Pattison

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At an early age I was transported from a simple rural existence into amazing journeys of discovery with guides as diverse as Heinlein, Cooper, Vonnegut, Stevenson, Conan Doyle, and Bradbury. Through them I began to appreciate the vast diversity of literary experience, and while I enjoyed the diversions of lighter fare, I realized that some writers stayed with me long after I put their books down. Many writers kept me awake late into the night as I read them, but these kept me awake after I turned the lights out. I wasn’t just entertained by these novelists, I was absorbing new and fascinating facts about the world and being invited into issues and ideas I had never before considered. I was being educated in the broadest sense of the word, and provoked into considering issues a youth on a remote chicken farm would never otherwise glimpse.

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