But this is a man accused of killing three people and wounding 23 others in
a bombing campaign lasting nearly 20 years. Understandably, Kaczynski’s cult
status has infuriated his alleged victims.

Most vociferous among them is David Gelernter, a professor of computer
science at Yale. He suffered extensive wounds after opening a letter bomb from
the Unabomber in 1993. The bomber later wrote to him, taunting him for being
“dumb enough” to open a package from an unknown source. There’s a transcript of
the letter at http://pages.prodigy.com/gvmm68e/letter1.html.

Gelernter’s book, Drawing Life: Surviving the Unabomber, rails against the
“victim culture” that he blames for spawning the Unabomber. Reviews are mixed,
as you’ll see from the two at
http://www.usnews.com/USNEWS/issue/971006/6john.htm and
http://www.newsday.com/nd1/more/bookbk30.htm.