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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: 27 Jan 93 12:26:16
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- In-reply-to: Cannam@sc.ZIB-Berlin.de's message of 26 Jan 93 18:12:23
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- In article <CANNAM.93Jan26181223@borodin.sc.ZIB-Berlin.de>
- Cannam@sc.ZIB-Berlin.de (Chris Cannam) writes:
-
- 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.
-
- Alternatively you could just wait for me to decide to post again and
- weed out the words for you. Here:
-
- ---- begin
-
-
- Who knows how to make love stay?
-
- 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.
-
- 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.
-
- 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.
-
- Tom Robbins, ``Still Life With Woodpecker''
-
-
- ---- end
-
- --
- 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
-
-