real people

[brad daly]

someone said:

> 
> TERRY CAESAR writes:
> 
> > Help! Anybody recall the name of that novel of a few years ago in which
> > Normal Mailer is murdered? Mailer sued, I believe. The Mailer who actually
> > lives, I mean, outside this novel or any other.
> 
> *Normal* Mailer! I hope that's a typo...
> 

teehee, y'all are a riot.  i'm glad i found you.

> 
> > What to make, I wondered, of so many recent works of fiction where
> > real people appear. Not as characters. 

isn't it in _breakfast of champions_ that vonnegut pulls up in a datsun 
and pulls kilgore trout aside to discuss his life or something or 
other?  it's all a blur.


--
brad daly              	                       bwdaly at panther.bsc.edu
"People sometimes say that the way things happen in the 
movies is unreal, but actually it's the way things happen 
to you in life that's unreal."  --Andy Warhol