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- From: Cannam@sc.ZIB-Berlin.de (Chris Cannam)
- Newsgroups: alt.fan.tom-robbins
- Subject: Re: how to make love stay
- Date: 26 Jan 93 18:12:23
- Organization: Konrad Zuse Zentrum fuer Informationstechnik Berlin
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- In-reply-to: dixon@katk.Helsinki.FI's message of Tue, 26 Jan 1993 16:21:21 GMT
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-
- In article <dixon.1@katk.Helsinki.FI> dixon@katk.Helsinki.FI (DIXON
- MARY BETH) writes:
-
- can someone please tell me what the passage is in one of tom robbins books
- that starts out how to make love stay.
-
-
- Well if you happen to have plain-TeX (not LaTeX) there, here's a TeX'd
- version. If not, you could just weed out the words.
-
-
- ---- begin
-
- \hsize=4.5in
- \vsize=8in
- \voffset=0.5in
- \hoffset=1.025in
- \footline={}
- \font\rm=cmr12
- \rm
-
- \vbox{\vskip 2.7in}
- \hbox{Who knows how to make love stay?}
- \vskip 0.5em
- \vskip 0.5em
-
- \hskip -1pc 1. Tell love you are going to Junior's Deli on Flatbush
- Avenue in Brooklyn to pick up a cheesecake, and if love stays, it can
- have half. It will stay. \vskip 0.5em
-
- \hskip -1pc 2. Tell love you want a memento of it and obtain a lock of
- its hair. Burn the hair in a dime-store incense burner with yin/yang
- symbols on three sides. Face southwest. Talk fast over the burning
- hair in a convincingly exotic language. Remove the ashes of the burnt
- hair and use them to paint a moustache on your face. Find love. Tell
- it you are someone else. It will stay. \vskip 0.5em
-
- \hskip -1pc 3. Wake love up in the middle of the night. Tell it the
- world is on fire. Dash to the bedroom window and pee out of it.
- Casually return to bed and assure love that everything is going to be
- all right. Fall asleep. Love will be there in the morning. \vskip
- 0.5em \vskip 0.5em
-
- \hbox to 4.5in{\hfill Tom Robbins, ``Still Life With Woodpecker''}
- \vfill
- \eject\end
-
- ---- end
-
-
-
- You're welcome.
-
- Chris
-
- --
- on sighting mathematicians it should unhook the algebra from their
- minds and replace it with poetry; on sighting poets it should
- unhook poetry from their minds and replace it with algebra
-
-