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"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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Recipe included in letter from fan
M 90 Tom Robbins B11 correspondence pie recipe rsz.jpg

Compare this graphic to the cover of the author's 2014 book, Tibetan Peach Pie.
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Envelope refers to opening of Jitterbug Perfume,"The beet is the most intense of vegetables."
M 90 Tom Robbins B11 correspondence prayer card Fierce Invalids.jpg

"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…
PS 3568_O233A3_2014 Tom Robbins Tibetan Peach Pie cover rsz.jpg

College ruled notebook, 80 sheets. DASCO The Alive Collection, Absolutely Wild, orangutan cover.
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College ruled notebook, 80 sheets. DASCO The Alive Collection, Absolutely Wild, antelope cover.
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School Tablet, 65 sheets, "Dastardly & Muttley Meet Penelope Pitstop" cover.
M 90 Box 1 Dastardly and Muttley tablet no 3_cowgirls rsz.jpg

The Zoo was a short lived literary magazine published in 1960 by students at Richmond Professional Institute (now VCU). In fact, volume one, number one, may have been the only issue. The magazine contains 15 poems including one by Tom Robbins…
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HyToNE 39 Pencil Tablet, 94 sheets.
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Epigraphs:Your true guide drinks from an undammed stream. --RumiNever enter a house that does not have furniture music. -- Eric Satie
PS 3568_O233W55 2005 Wild Ducks Flying Backward cover rsz.jpg

Epigraph:You never know to whom you're talking. -- Bertolt Brecht, The Threepenny OperaPS 3568.O233 V55 2003
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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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I want God, I want poetry, I want danger, I want freedom, I want goodness, I want sin. --Aldous Huxley
PS 3568_O233F54 2000 Fierce Invalids Home from Hot Climates rsz.jpg
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