December 2011
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jess-yess asked: My dad absentmindedly handed me a copy of Another Roadside Attraction when I was 12, and it blew my tiny mind. Needless to say, I now conceptualize my life as pre and post Tom Robbins. Thanks for the blog!
“Serious reading is hardly a social activity and every halfway serious reader is...”
– Tom Robbins
November 2011
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September 2011
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10 BOOKS TOM ROBBINS BELIEVES EVERYBODY SHOULD...
Understanding Media
by Marshall MacLuhan
The Archaic Revival by Terence McKenna
The Tao of Physics by Frijdof Capra
The Book on the Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are by Alan Watts
The Masks of God by Joseph Campbell
On Glory Roads by Eleanor Munro
The Banquet Years by Roger Shattuck
The Women’s Encyclopedia of Myths and Secrets compiled by Barbara G. Walker
News of the...
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6 THINGS TOM ROBBINS IS GLAD HE WROTE
I never go back and read my books; I’m saving that for my golden years. But I retain a strong affection for: *the passage in Even Cowgirls Get the Blues building up to the first description of Sissy Hankshaw’s enormous thumbs *the opening gambit in Jitterbug Perfume: “The beet is the most intense of vegetables… .” *the bed mite passage from Half Asleep in Frog...
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August 2011
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He has said that "I have always been a...
Cocaine, cocaine, the mystical fruit The more you have the more you toot The more you toot the better you feel So sniff some wiff some instead of a meal
"Not naive," Conch Shell had corrected him, "He...
