Comments on: Still Life With Woodpecker by Tom Robbins - Book Review

By: Bbon

Bbon — Tue, 23 Dec 2008 08:33:00 +0000

i just downloaded an e-book version of the book (.txt)
Unfortunately, we all know that the best part is when tom writes at the end in longhand. arrgh! and it’s missing from the e-book. any one know where to find this text?
“Ha! what’s the matter Rem? got a speech impediment?…”

this is the cherry on top of the icing, the ‘h’ at the end of an ‘aah’.
without it, it’s just a hole in the middle of a donut.

By: k z

k z — Fri, 31 Oct 2008 21:46:41 +0000

this is for Vicevoices:

“Hawaii once had a rat problem. Then, somebody hit upon a brilliant solution. Import mongooses from India. Mongooses would kill the rats. It worked. Mongooses did kill the rats. Mongooses also killed chickens, young pigs, birds, cats, dogs, and small children. There have been reports of mongooses attacking motorbikes, power lawn mowers, golf carts, and James Michener. In Hawaii now, there are as many mongooses as there once were rats. Hawaii has traded its rat problem for a mongoose problem. Hawaii was determined nothing like that would ever happen again.

How could Leigh-Cheri draw for Gulietta the appropriate analogy between Hawaii’s rodents and society at large? Society had a crime problem. It hired cops to attack crime. Now society has a cop problem.”

By: Vicevoices

Vicevoices — Sat, 18 Oct 2008 04:17:03 +0000

There is a quote I’m looking for, I can’t remember which book, though. To paraphrase: “Hawaii had a rat problem, they brought in snakes to eat the rats. The snakes ate the rats, but then Hawaii had a snake problem. They brought in mongooses to rid them of the snakes. Then they had a mongoose problem. LA had a crime problem, they brought in cops.”

If anyone can find the exact passage, and post it here, though I’ll probably have long forgotten I’d ever been here, I will appreciate it none the less. In fact, I already do.

By: ae

ae — Mon, 09 Jun 2008 17:31:21 +0000

There was also the quote about him getting hair coloring on his shoes…after that “he dyed with his boots on”. There are just some things in this world that deserve quoting and being memorized and I keep trying for Casey at Bat the whole poem, what I end up with is bits and pieces from Still Life. Besides it blows your friends’ minds when you can say “oily and thermal like the sun in solution”, leastways the ones you love for their minds.

By: Cheerleader

Cheerleader — Sat, 22 Mar 2008 17:14:46 +0000

Tequila…..oh oh….
I remember back when.

I dont dring that anymore.

Laffe

By: ae

ae — Tue, 05 Feb 2008 08:38:50 +0000

Now Tequila has probably betrayed more outlaws than the central nervous system and disgruntled wives. Oh, Tequila, harsh dew of the doglands, essence of Azteca, crema de cacti, Tequila, oily and thermal like the sun in solution, Tequila, liquid geometry of passion, Tequila, firebug in the house of good taste, Tequila, the buzzard king who fornicates with the ascending souls of dying virgens, oh tequila what mischief (and something)….do your sly rebellious drops make.

Love the quotes you included–love the one about oily and thermal, like the sun in solution. Man flat writes out nicest nasties. Starts with the whole universe and brings it down to just us….gotta love that.