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- From: rstepno@eagle.wesleyan.edu
- Newsgroups: misc.writing
- Subject: Life as Art, vice as versa
- Message-ID: <1992Jul27.185559.1@eagle.wesleyan.edu>
- Date: 27 Jul 92 22:55:59 GMT
- Organization: Wesleyan University
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- Idle curiosity here...
- How do you respond when your date admits that he/she is a novelist
- (unpublished) and offers to loan you her/his last manuscript
- about the previous significant other... or the novel before that,
- about the person before that...?
- That is, what do you think about churning your friends' lives into
- fiction?
- Is the appropriate etiquette to reply in kind and let him/her find
- a notebook/recorder/Powerbook under your pillow?
- Would Miss Manners approve of saying, "Sorry, I'm saving MY life
- for MY novel, please don't write about me when I'm gone," or ?
- Bob
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