Girl Goes Into Room, Ends Up in a Box of Cigarettes, What am I working with Here?

August 8, 2006 1:29 AM

Name this book or short story: A girl locks herself in her room with a bucket for piss and a bucket to shit. She meditates herself into the desert from the packaging of a box of Camel cigarettes. Any of this information may be false, I'm working off a description I vaguely remember from ten years ago.
posted by elr to Media & Arts (7 answers total)

Best answer: Still Life With Woodpecker, by Tom Robbins?
posted by sagwalla at 1:46 AM on August 8, 2006

Best answer: Been a long time since I read it... not Still Life With Woodpecker?
posted by methylsalicylate at 1:49 AM on August 8, 2006

Response by poster: Wow, that was easy. Thanks!
posted by elr at 4:32 AM on August 8, 2006

If this typewriter AskMe can't do it, then fuck it, it can't be done.
posted by Tuwa at 5:11 AM on August 8, 2006

damn it. i so knew that. might i suggest you also read Skinny Legs and All by the very same Tom Robbins.
posted by nadawi at 8:27 AM on August 8, 2006

Man, I knew it, too! Also read Jitterbug Perfume, but really I've always thought of Robbins as a poor man's Thomas Pynchon. If you can handle it, try Mason & Dixon.
posted by Squid Voltaire at 9:37 AM on August 8, 2006

try Mason & Dixon.

Or The Crying of Lot 49.

Or, even better, Vineland.
posted by dersins at 11:04 AM on August 8, 2006