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Some of them were short, but Balzac’s Comédie humaine was 90 novels or novellas.
In the book, my doppelgänger, or alter ego
Black McGoon, is writing a book called BLACK MCGOON: MY LIFE IN FLORIDA, by analogy with Julia
Child’s My Life in France, or Carlos
Baker’s Ernest Hemingway: A Life
Story.
I post the books JANUARY 2010 – AUGUST
2011 online, daily, as I write them, at The
Daily Bulletin, and reply to reader comments, in the books.
The epigraph to Baker’s biography of
Hemingway is from James Joyce’s A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man: “To live, to err, to fall, to triumph, to
recreate life out of life…”
The books online don’t have
illustrations. To see the pictures,
you’ll have to buy the actual books.
The pictures in the books came out okay,
but when I upload them to the web, the links don’t work. Something in Microsoft Internet Explorer is
changing the filenames of the pictures, and they won’t display.
It’s just Bill Gates. I don’t have time to fix it. It’s beyond my ken.
I’m a writer, not a computer nerd.
Although I look like Michael Douglas in Falling Down.
You’ve heard of Triple-X (XXX)? My life is Double-X (XX). Double-Ought (00).
Buckshot.
In A
Man in Full, Tom Wolfe had a man hunting quail with buckshot.
I liked to picture what buckshot would do
to a quail.
I am a man incomplete, or a man
unfinished. A man stymied by his
circumstances.
But game.
I keep trying.
You can put on my tombstone, “He tried.”