tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7133703.post108901516224055388..comments2024-03-07T07:35:06.698-05:00Comments on A Healthy Fear of Botulism: A Literary ExerciseDead Serioushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01072762590664103691noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7133703.post-1090652619397291672004-07-24T03:03:00.000-04:002004-07-24T03:03:00.000-04:00This comment has been removed by a blog administrator.Dead Serioushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01072762590664103691noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7133703.post-1089174883347972802004-07-07T00:34:00.000-04:002004-07-07T00:34:00.000-04:00She hasn't been dead four months and I've already ...She hasn't been dead four months and I've already eaten to the bottom of the deep freeze. Then I went back to my cellar, crawling down a ladder from the attic, and after quietly polishing off the bottle of rum and downing a beer chaser, I pickaxed my way through a mass of foul, sticky paper full of mice-made Swiss-cheese-like holes, and after another drink of beer I forked it into my drum, mouse paths and all, whole nests full of mice, because we'd been closed for two days to give me time to make a clean sweep of the cellar before inventory. Old Boudreau shook his head and said that it felt like a little hurricane and that meant a bad September for sure. Woodwind music filled the air, and, most wonderful of all, a small white island appeared just off the shore, bobbing on the waves like a raft; it was white as snow, with white sand sloping up to a clump of albino trees, which were white, chalk-white, paper-white, to the very tips of their leaves. This was one thing he hadn't figured on, in all his plans--the one slim chance he had overlooked completely.<br /><br />The books in order of the list and the paragraph. (Too lazy to mix and match)<br />1. A Virtuous Woman, Kaye Gibbons<br />2. Too Loud a Solitude, Bohumil Hrabal<br />3. The Hard Blue Sky, Shirley Ann Grau<br />4. The Satanic Verses, Salman Rushdie<br />5. The Collected Stories of Richard YatesKen Wheatonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09613207405497669632noreply@blogger.com