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- Danny Bloom is a global citizen who helped midwife, er, midhusband, Jim Laughter's new cli fi novel titled POLAR CITY RED, now for sale worldwide, google the title to find ordering info. In the distant future—some say the near future—North America, northern Asia and Europe will see millions of climate refugees from southern lands trekking northward, and the entire Lower 48 might be under threat from the devastating impacts of “climate chaos” —from rising sea levels to a scary scarcity of food, fuel and shelter.
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Sometimes, you just need patience for the right person to come along.
Okay, here goes
Lazlo Toth. does the name ring a bell? there was a US comedian Don Novello, who did an act on Tv calling himself LAzlo Toth.....the Hungarian guy i knew in Rome, 1969 winter of........i was college drop out, Tufts 1971, of junior year in Europe, travelling everywhere, ended up in Rome, stayed in youth hostel near Trasteveri, and the guy sleeping on the bunk above me was this tall long haired intellectul llooking Hungarian dude, he played a guitar, USA songs, he told me he has been a engineer for oil firm in Austalia for 5 years or so before coming to Roma.....and we began to pal around,,,goign to pubs, bars, cafes, restaurnst, parties, it was the 1960s in Rome.......we met peter oToole one day at a local Trasteveri cafe and he was drunk and fascinating all afternoon....... anyways, i knew Lazlo for about 6 weeks, we hiked all over ROme together, but he always carried a black heavy bible with him, in Hungarin, adn me an atheist, i asked him if he beleived in all that, eh said he was just studyijng it, he never spoke about God or Jesus, so i let it go... didnt think much of it.....THEN i left Rome came back to Boston to resume studies at Tufts......and about 3 months later, i am at check out counter of grocery store, and there is a Bston Globe front page in the rack and it says CRAZED MAN ATTACKS PIETA IN ROME....so i looked at the photo and omigod, it's LAZLO, goatee and all....the papers said he went to Vatican Msueim with a ham,mer concealed in his coat, attacked the Pieta and cut off her nose.....and started prioclaing "I am Jesus Christ!"
O jesus, i thought. that's LAZLO, my roomate....what happened to him.....!?
i never found out....i am told he was sent to mental hopsttial and is still there....it would be cool for a enterprising reporter to find out where he is now? he must be about 65 or 70 if alive.....
TYPOS TO BE FIXED LATER
remember, Lazlo Toth was the Hungarian-born, Australian geologist that
perhaps baked a little too long in the Outback. He came out believing
that he was He: Jesus Christ. And he came out swinging―at
Michelangelo's Pieta. At 33 years of age, Toth took a sledgehammer to
Mary. He amputated her arm, gave her a nose reduction, and chipped an eyelid.As he swung 15 times,
he shouted, "I am Jesus Christ!"
Thanks for sharing!