'Cause it's sunlight where we flew, though the trail is cold above

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It is the equinox. Strictly speaking, I slept through the changeover: I fell asleep at the end of summer and woke with leaf-light on the walls. It wasn't hurting me.

rushthatspeaks has posted on Daniel Pinkwater and Surrealism. The tag is my girlfriend dared me. I regret nothing.

greygirlbeast correctly described a band I've been needing for years: Giant Squid. They're like drowned Tom Waits. With more scientific names.

The father of a friend of mine won two Ig Nobels at this year's awards ceremony. First prize, one week . . . ?

If the rest of the season is going to be like this, I can live with it.

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That sounds entirely like Pinkwater.

Yes. I think I should re-read some of his work.

I doubt it.

Hopefully your doubts are justified.* Do you happen to know when the omnibus was published?

...but that's because he hasn't been for most of my life, even when he's being published.)

Interesting. I suppose I do remember reading him mostly out of libraries. Those books might well have been printed a decade ore more before I read them. I would have hoped my younger self would check publication dates, but I suppose that if I did I've forgotten them.

ETA:
The bibliography on Pinkwater's Wikipedia entry tells me that Attila the Pun: A Magic Moscow Story was published in 1981. So I suppose that when I read it it was probably four or five years old.

In the process of reading up on Pinkwater, I came across this, which I thought rather interesting. Have you seen this piece, or heard about the story?

*I feel strange defending depictions of smoking, as it's not a habit I particularly care for, but my objections to bowdlerisation and removal of period detail are far more important to me.

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Have you seen this piece, or heard about the story?

Yes—I could have sworn I posted a link about it, but can't find the post now. That's weird even by Pinkwater standards.