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Michael Bailey
michael.lee.bailey at gmail.com
Sun Jul 17 17:28:57 CDT 2011
I joined in 1919. I first picked up a Chums of Chance book in a
back-row seat at an IWW rally in 1910. My skull was fractured in a
scuffle with some Pinkertons and I spent a few years bumming around
trying to form a union of the unemployed, until I was drafted in 1915
and sent to France. I read the entire Chums series in the trenches,
the illustrated versions. The AEF took their time about demobilizing
me, and I came back to my home town shellshocked in the midst of the
flu epidemic. Luckily I lived next door to a homeopath who diluted a
cure for me. At loose ends, I took up beekeeping - and then I
discovered the Pynchon List...
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