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Re: writing and insanity

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From: Paul Callahan
Date: Mon, 04 Nov 1996 00:00
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In article <327CC0EC.A9D@flinet.com>, Randy Carmine  <hentai@flinet.com> wrote:
>Jennifer's Pet Madman wrote:
>> 
>> Anna Banana (banana@gold.interlog.com) posted:
>> 
>> : Most people do have amazing inner lives.
>> 
>> No they don't. Most people, even most brilliant schizophrenic Sci-Fi
>> writers, are preoccupied with trivial horseshit -- and do it badly.
>
>	Everyone is preoccupied with trivial horseshit, but that doesn't mean
>they don't do/haven't done, some damned interesting things in their
>lives.

I'd just like to interject here that even if you accept _A Scanner Darkly_
as largely autobiographical, the most you could infer is that PKD was
obsessed with dog shit, not horse shit.  And it wasn't his fault.  It
was something that woman said.  Things stick in your mind, you know.  It
can happen to anyone.  You'd think at least someone living in
Baltimore "If there is a scoop law, they sure don't enforce it" Maryland
would understand.

-- 
"There are mountains in Switzerland." -- Indigo Girls in a rare lucid moment
Paul Callahan (callahan@inf.ethz.ch)  Web Page: http://wwwjn.inf.ethz.ch/paul/
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From: callahan@brain11.inf.ethz.ch (Paul Callahan)
Subject: Re: writing and insanity
Date: 1996/11/04
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