Date:         Thu, 19 Nov 1998 11:34:08 -0500
From: Tim Cramm <timcramm@ATT.NET>
Subject:      Re: [WRITERS] INT: The eMJay award interviews, par four (FORE!)

At 11:10 AM 11/19/98 -0500 the rags of time... chugged a beer, then belched
the following:
>The world's finest bookstores are opening their doors for you to pick any
>three books.  Name them and they're yours...
>
>The only catch is this -- you are about to be sealed away for a year, with
>these three books as your only amusement.  Food, drink, medical care, etc.
>will be provided so you don't need the survival manuals, just something that
>you wouldn't mind reading... and reading again... and again.

:-)   [that's for the judges]

Ugh, I've never understood this question.  Are you supposed to pick books
that you like, your very favorite books in the whole world, so that when
you get sealed away you know you've got stuff you'll enjoy reading?  Or do
you pick books you've always wanted to read, thus risking the chance that
you'll get 20 pages into something, hate it, and be stuck?

And what?  No pen and paper?  Or computer?  How'm I gonna write?  Or is
this like Fahrenheit 451, where I have to memorize what I'm writing by
repeating it over and over?

OK, three books, three books...

<1> 'Gravity's Rainbow' because I want to read some Pynchon and hear this
is (a) very good and (b) almost impossible to get through, and seeing as
I've got a year I'm going to need something kind of long

<2> 'The New Grove Dictionary of Jazz' - just stuff I've wanted to know,
plus it's $395 and I don't have that kind of cash to shell out for a book,
so might as well take it while it's free

<3>  Some jumbo collection of New York Times Sunday crossword puzzles

There you go.

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Tim Cramm
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