Chuck Grimes wrote:
>I personally hated Wolfe's writing so much, that after I finished
>Bonfire, I nailed it to a board and put it on my back porch to rot in
>the sun and rain. It stayed there from its birth in the Reagan years
>to perhaps the middle Clinton period, its racid prose stubbornly
>resisting time and weather under the horridly putrescent covers. At
>long last the lurid colors faded into an illegible gray brown that
>resembled dessicated flesh, as the nails rusted in place on the cracked
>board.
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I hope you never get mad at me.
Joanna
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