Still Life With Woodpecker

Started rereading this today after more than 15 years since the last time I read it, and it is as great as ever!

Of course, A Redhead was the problem the last time I read it too :D



Have you read this? Did you like it?

RL

and i haven't read it in...probably 11 years or so. i was thinking about Jitterbug Perfume too. :thumbsup:

Read a bunch of his books back then.

RL

our Jitterbug Perfume to this thread. One might think from her DU user name that maybe she is a Tom Robins fan.

Beware the beets.

And Pan.

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Get the Blues."
"Half Asleep in Frog Pajamas" was pretty good too.

really like it. Gives you much to think about.

Make Love Stay
(Fogelberg)


Now that we love
Now that the lonely nights are over
How do we make love stay?
Now that we know
The fire can burn bright or merely smolder
How do we keep it from dying away?
Elusive as dreams
Barely remembered in the morning
Love like a phantom flies
But held in the heart
It pales like the emply smile adorning
A statue with sightless eyes.
Moments fleet, taste sweet within the rapture
When precious flesh is greedily consumed
But mystery's a thing not easily captured
And once deceased not easily exhumed.
Now that we love
Now that the lonely nights are over
How do we make love stay?
Moments fleet, taste so sweet within the rapture
When precious flesh is greedily consumed
But mystery's a thing not easily captured
And once deceased not easily exhumed.
Now that we loved
Look at the moonless night and tell me
How do we make love stay?

Badly misquoted:

Albert Camus said the only important question was whether or not to kill yourself.
Tom Robbins said the only important question was what was the meaning of the moon.

Camus obviously got up on the wrong side of the bed and Robbins didn't even bother to set the alarm clock.

The only important question is how do you make love stay? Answer that and I'll tell you whether or not to kill yourself and what the meaning of the moon is.



In other words, I loved it. Go back and reread Another Roadside Attraction and let Amanda be your pinecone :)


Khash.

like a fruit so swollen with juice it longs for the prick of the knife. doesn't get much better than that. read this in high school and fell in love. or, fell in love and then read it in high school. or some combination of the two. seems like my life hasn't changed much since i read it. still as confused as ever.

"If this typewriter can't do it, then fuck it. It can't be done."

I bought it in the campus bookstore at Westminster College as I picked up textbooks at the beginning of my sophomore year. Sat on the couch in the formal living room of the fraternity house and devoured it in a couple of hours. Ever since, it's on my "read it once a year" list.

Ever notice that Leigh-Cheri is just a philological hop-skip-and-a-jump from "lechery?"

And a lot has changed in that time (I'm only 25). I ought to go back and re-read it, along with the other books of his that I have. I liked half asleep in Frog Pajamas, but I read that about the same time...

The perfect example of why smoking should be allowed in some restaraunts, if only for historical preservation purposes.

Was rumored to be one of his Richmond haunts, don't know if it was true, but it sure made us feel cool in high school, drinking coffee, and smoking cigarrettes.

So many book, so little time...

RL

:woohoo:

and I make it a point to re-read it every couple of years. My favorite has got to be "Fierce Invalids Home from Hot Climates."

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0553107755/002-7815524-2060861?v=glance&n=283155

but I loved it. I'm going to have to go dig it out now so I can read it again in upcoming new year.