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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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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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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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Conversations with Tom Robbins
Special Collections and Archives copy of this title is inscribed by Tom Robbins.
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WNYC Recording and Broadcast Agreement, Summer Stage Spoken Word
Robbins' postscript to this contract reads, "I should warn you that you may have to press your bleep button a few times"
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Tom Robbins' Business Card
Business card identifying Tom Robbins as: Part-time Buddha Menace to Society Admirier of Clouds
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Tom Robbins as a student at Richmond Professional Institute
This image of Tom Robbins is from the 1959 student yearbook for Richmond Professional Institute (RPI), The Cobblestone. RPI was often called the “cobblestone” campus because of its bricked sidewalks and cobblestone alley ways.
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Top Flight Earthbound spiral notebook
Unlike other notebooks in this collection, this book contains notes, phrases, and ideas representing the very early stages of Tom Robbins' creative process.
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