Against the Day title confirmed on Amazon

[kelber at mindspring.com]

The manuscript was reportedly written on graph paper, so I always figured that he outlined a row of graph paper squares between sections and decided to stick with the look for the printed version.

Laura

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>From: jd <wescac at gmail.com>
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>Subject: Re: Against the Day title confirmed on Amazon
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>RE: the porky pig faces, I never heard that!  That's a pretty good
>little factoid, but I do like the five squares more I think.  Has
>there been much commentary on whether or not they actually represent
>anything?  I remember hearing that there was some idea floating around
>that they were like the edges of a strip of film, but I don't remember
>where.  Then again, the Porky faces I don't think would have been
>meant to be seriously analyzed (or he probably would have insisted on
>their inclusion), so perhaps those squares don't merit it either.