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

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

elr — Tue, 08 Aug 2006 01:29:34 -0800

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.

By: sagwalla

sagwalla — Tue, 08 Aug 2006 01:46:05 -0800

Still Life With Woodpecker, by Tom Robbins?

By: methylsalicylate

methylsalicylate — Tue, 08 Aug 2006 01:49:10 -0800

Been a long time since I read it... not Still Life With Woodpecker?

By: elr

elr — Tue, 08 Aug 2006 04:32:44 -0800

Wow, that was easy. Thanks!

By: Tuwa

Tuwa — Tue, 08 Aug 2006 05:11:55 -0800

If ~~this typewriter~~ AskMe can't do it, then fuck it, it can't be done.

By: nadawi

nadawi — Tue, 08 Aug 2006 08:27:57 -0800

damn it. i so knew that. might i suggest you also read Skinny Legs and All by the very same Tom Robbins.

By: Squid Voltaire

Squid Voltaire — Tue, 08 Aug 2006 09:37:45 -0800

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.

By: dersins

dersins — Tue, 08 Aug 2006 11:04:00 -0800

try Mason & Dixon.

Or The Crying of Lot 49.

Or, even better, Vineland.