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Yes, and this booklet of my conversations with the

dead-and-buried was created in the hope that it would

earn a little bit of money—not for me, but for the

National Public Radio Station WNYC in downtown

Manhattan. WNYC enhances the informed wit and


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wisdom of its community and mine. It does what no
commercial radio or TV station can afford to do any

more. WNYC satisfies the people's right to know—as
contrasted with, as abject slaves of high-roller publi-

cists and advertisers, keeping the public vacantly
diverted and entertained.
Whereas formal religions surely comfort many
members of the WNYC staff, that staff's collective
effect on its community is humanism—an ideal so

Earthbound and unmajestic that I never capitalize it.
As I have used it here, "humanist" is nothing more
' o


supernatural than a handy synonym for "good citizen-

ship and common decency."




I wish one and all long and happy lives, no matter what

may become of them afterwards. Use sunscreen!
Don't smoke cigarettes.


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 Cigars, however, are good for you. There is even a

magazine celebrating their enjoyment, with male role

models, athletes, actors, rich guys with trophy wives,