On 12 January 2001, Maura McMillan wrote:
: how come no one's talking about the significance of
heidi?
I have no idea what it's about. Does it relate?
Speaking of books, this bit from SIDESWIPE, Hoke #3, cracked
me up this morning. Hoke finally had his nervous breakdown,
and has abandoned his family and is trying to simplify his
life by managing an apartment building on an island, eating
chili five times a week and wearing only yellow jumpsuits
with no underwear. He talks to one of the tenants, an
entomologist who's on sabbatical writing a novel:
| "The novel's coming along, though. I'm writing about a
college
| professor at Gainesville, a history professor, who's having
an
| affair with one of his students--an orthodontist's daughter
from
| Fort Lauderdale. She works part-time in a wicker
furniture,
| and they meed there at night to make love."
| "Does she have bad teeth?" [says Hoke.]
| "Yes. How'd you know that?"
This island, we're told, was also where the editorial offices
of ALFRED HITCHCOCK'S MYSTERY MAGAZINE once were, and I guess
that's where Willeford went when he edited there.
Bill
-- William Denton : Toronto, Canada : http://www.miskatonic.org/ : Caveat lector.
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