CHAIRMAN MAO'S LITTLE RED BOOK IS old hat. Quotations from Chairman Zalm (Pulp $4.95) is a new, 100 page stocking stuffer containing 20 years of wisdom from The Man Who Would Be Sinterklaas. "Large numbers of intellectuals have confessed themselves unable to approach Zalm Thought with any degree of self-confidence," write the tongue-in-cheek, editors Steve Osborne and Mary Schendlinger. "Dismayed by the seemingly opaque, daunted by the apparently surreal, they retreat from Zalm Thought as they do from the koan and the haiku.";Let them be reassured, however, let them calm themselves. All the complexities of Zalm Thought form a simple whole, and must be approached with an open mind and a quiet spirit. It is a way of seeing into the world." No word yet whether the Premier Bill Vander Zalm will demand his own share of the royalties

[Winter / BCBW 1989]