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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…
PS 3568_O233H35 1994 Half Asleep In Frog Pajamas rsz.jpg

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.
PS 3568_O233S55 1990 Skinny legs and all cover rsz.jpg

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…
PS 3568_O233S85 Still Life With Woodpecker cover rsz.jpg

PS 3568 .O233 B4 2009
PS 3568_O233B4 2009 B is for Beer cover rsz.jpg

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…
PS 3568_O233J5 1984 Jitterbug Perfume cover rsz.jpg

Special Collections and Archives copy of this title is inscribed by Tom Robbins.
PS 3568_O233Z46_2011 Conversations with Tom Robbins cover rsz.jpg

Robbins' postscript to this contract reads, "I should warn you that you may have to press your bleep button a few times"
M 90 Box 12 Contracts and Correspondence 1993_2007 WNYC rsz.jpg

Business card identifying Tom Robbins as: Part-time Buddha Menace to Society Admirier of Clouds
M 90 Box 12 Folder Miscellaneous Business card front rsz.jpg

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.
Tom Robbins at RPI 1959.jpg

Unlike other notebooks in this collection, this book contains notes, phrases, and ideas representing the very early stages of Tom Robbins' creative process.
M 90 Top Flight Earthbound notebook cover rsz.jpg
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