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Conversations with Tom Robbins
Special Collections and Archives copy of this title is inscribed by Tom Robbins.
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Correspondence sent to Tom Robbins, item 2
"I love your books. Occasionally, I kiss their covers, nibble the corners of their pagan pages, and lick their lovely little spines. Yum."
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Correspondence with Tom Robbins, item 4
Envelope refers to opening of Jitterbug Perfume,"The beet is the most intense of vegetables."
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Correspondence with Tom Robbins, item 9
Recipe included in letter from fan
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Even Cowgirls Get the Blues
Epigraphs:The lust of the goat is the bounty of God.The nakedness of women is the work of God.Excess of sorrow laughs. Excess of joy weeps.-- William BlakeI told Dale, "When I go, just skin me and put me on top of Trigger." And Dale said, "Now don't…
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Fierce Invalids Home From Hot Climates
I want God, I want poetry,
I want danger, I want freedom,
I want goodness, I want sin.
--Aldous Huxley
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Half Asleep in Frog Pajamas
It has been demonstrated that some amphibians are able to use celestial bodies for orientation.
--The Encyclopedia Britannica
No doubt the world is entirely an imaginary world, but it is only once removed from the true world.
--Isaac Bashevis…
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Handwritten notebook No. 1, Even Cowgirls Get the Blues
HyToNE 39 Pencil Tablet, 94 sheets.
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Handwritten notebook No. 3, Even Cowgirls Get the Blues
School Tablet, 65 sheets, "Dastardly & Muttley Meet Penelope Pitstop" cover.
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Handwritten notebook, Even Cowgirls Get the Blues,
College ruled notebook, 80 sheets. DASCO The Alive Collection, Absolutely Wild, antelope cover.
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Handwritten notebook, Even Cowgirls Get the Blues.
College ruled notebook, 80 sheets. DASCO The Alive Collection, Absolutely Wild, orangutan cover.
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Jitterbug Perfume
Epigraphs:
The distinctive human problem from time immemorial has been the need to spiritualize human life, to lift it onto a special immortal plane, beyond the cycles of life and death that characterize all other organisms.
--Ernest…
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Skinny Legs And All
Epigraphs: The Messiah will only come when he is no longer needed. --Franz Kafka It's the end of the world as we know it (And I feel fine.) --R.E.M.
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Still Life With Woodpecker
Epigraphs: You don't need to leave your room. Remain sitting at your table and listen. Don't even listen, simply wait. Don't even wait. Be still and solitary. The world will freely offer itself to you. To be unmasked, it has no choice. It will roll…
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Tibetan Peach Pie: A True Account of an Imaginative Life
"This is not an autobiography. God forbid! Autobiography is fueled by ego and I could make a long list of persons whose belly buttons I'd rather be contemplating than my own.... I'd like to think Tibetan Peach Pie isn't a memoir either, although it…
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