Very nice on M & D....

Robin Landseadel robinlandseadel at comcast.net
Sun Jun 6 15:44:23 CDT 2010


On Jun 6, 2010, at 1:23 PM, Alex Colter wrote:

> Alice, you may never make sense of a Critical Mind if you do not  
> practice the art of Strongly Misreading...?
> As for a novel or parody of a novel not being the same as  
> Autobiography see Mark Twain's which may as well be a novel or a  
> parody of one
>  (tho' I believe his Autobiography Proper was published recently).
> One may also argue the autobiographical nature of many great  
> Novels...?

Thanks, Alex for watching my back against the increasingly deranged  
attentions of the Legion of Gnomes.

Hey, the Dude's describing his old neighborhood for the better part of  
three hundred and sixty-nine pages. If that ain't autobiography, it's  
close enough for the People's Republic of Rock and Roll.

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Mrs. C. had been trying, in the meantime,
to enlarge her hallucinatory repertoire,
feeling that if she did not make a conscious
effort it would contract to three or four
endlessly repeated songs



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