I am now reading a cheap paperback auto-bio by Zola: Confessions of a Contemporary Jew. A wonderful, strange, and genuinely humorous book. Being slightly disrespectful of churchly things and people, on an application for a temporary job at a Christian Expo he had to admit he had no Church of his own to list where he attended. The book championed the ideas of individuality, self esteem and brotherhood. He wrote an interesting passage about perhaps the most impressive Christian he ever met: a wandering homeless late morning riser without a job who enjoyed cigars and wine in moderation, but proved a powerful spellbinding street witness for the Gospel.
