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what if
Pilder took place at a large University in Indiana instead of Missouri, and was set about 50 years later than Stoner, and was based on a true story? More Vietnam, more long hair, more LSD. But still plenty of romance, dean’s office politics and academic hi-jinx.
as if
the story actually happened, because it did, it just hasn’t been framed in the form of a book. I play a bit part in Bloomington right around 1969.
if and only if
this could be a work of non-non fiction. Names, places, characters and incidents all products of the author’s memory of what he perceived to be actual events described from his point of view. Any resemblance to actual events, locales, organizations, or persons, living or dead, is not coincidental. that's what he said - she said
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Today I got my hands on The Laughter. I had it on hold at the Seattle Public Library before they had their hands on it. But now, being #133 in line on 25 copies, with each patron potentially sitting on their share for 3 weeks… …the best case scenario made me break down and cough up the money at a local independent bookstore where I got to pull it off the shelf and buy it like your parents and grandparents used to do. Now I can read it and then lend it to two friends who tell two friends who tell two friends, before I’d ever get my hands on a library copy.
copy
roger
roger
over
unger
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