good book
fs...@acad3.alaska.edu
Steve Stone
>In article <1992Jul29....@news.media.mit.edu> tsma...@media.mit.edu (David LeCompte) writes:
>>In article <1992Jul28...@acad3.alaska.edu> fs...@acad3.alaska.edu writes:
>>>Damn, Still Life With Woodpecker is a good book!
>>>>Yup!
>>>>>Damn Straight!
Damn!? Yup!? Damn Straight!????
That's all you can say about the book that taught you what it is
to be an outlaw, the real meaning of the moon and how to make love
stay? It has been a while since the woodpecker crossed my path
but I still remember his flaming red head and it seared across
my consiousness, making me aware of the magic of choice.
I, like the Princess, have spent long nights in a dark room with no one else
but the moon. I have carried around a pack of Camel cigarettes
for a year, to show the magic of choice. (I choose not to control
the fire and draw it into myself, I leave that to braver souls)
I don't mean to flame you, just to light a fire under you.
Pour out what you feel, don't just exclaim it. Learn the
lessons that Dr. Robbins has taught and dare to make an
unseemly metaphor. Let the rosy fingers and thumbs of the
dawn bring the bright butter-basted mushrooms to light. Let
the bass note of beets anchor the perfume of dynamite that
Nobelly blows away the veils from your eyes.
Dare to be the pagan you were born to be, not just a "yup" or
"damn-straight" person.
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Steven A. Stone Bradley University
Electronic Services Librarian Peoria, Illinois
st...@bradley.bradley.edu (309) 677-2839
David LeCompte
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>>Damn, Still Life With Woodpecker is a good book!
>>>Yup!
felix power
Surely that should be :
Yum!
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(}:^) Felix
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Bob McQueer
> to be an outlaw, the real meaning of the moon and how to make love
> stay? It has been a while since the woodpecker crossed my path
> but I still remember his flaming red head and it seared across
> my consiousness, making me aware of the magic of choice.
Hmmm. I find it a bit curious that "Still Life with Woodpecker" seems
to be the definitive Tom Robbins novel to a lot of people. Personally,
I found it to be the least interesting of the five of his that I've read:
Even Cowgirls Get the Blues
Another Roadside Attraction
Jitterbug Perfume
Skinny Legs and All
Still Life with Woodpecker
(the above would be my personal ranking - you're entitled to yours, of course)
And I don't mean to suggest that it's lousy, so don't break out any nasty
remarks - I don't want to fence with anybody. It's just that years and
years and several states ago I read "Cowgirls" and "Another Roadside
Attraction". Only years ago, and one physical state removed from the
one I reside in now, I read "Still Life with Woodpecker", and was sort
of disappointed. For me, it just lacked the magical quality of the other
two. I was also annoyed that I waited and waited, and STILL got stuck
buying it in an overpriced "trade paper" edition, but that didn't color
my thinking - honest.
I was a bit apprehensive when "Jitterbug Perfume" came out, but I liked it,
and rereading it has only made it better.
> I don't mean to flame you, just to light a fire under you.
> Pour out what you feel, don't just exclaim it. Learn the
> lessons that Dr. Robbins has taught and dare to make an
> unseemly metaphor. Let the rosy fingers and thumbs of the
> dawn bring the bright butter-basted mushrooms to light. Let
> the bass note of beets anchor the perfume of dynamite that
> Nobelly blows away the veils from your eyes.
Somebody else has read all the chapters of the lesson, and I'm not going
to try to do a cross-novel metaphor of my own. All I'm saying is that
we have different keys that unroll our personal sardine tins - "Woodpecker"
just didn't fit mine as well as some of the others.
> Dare to be the pagan you were born to be, not just a "yup" or
> "damn-straight" person.
yup ;-). Hard to remember how, sometimes.