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I was around 14 when I got punched in the face for the first and (so far!)
The punch, which came from my younger brother and was justified, landed somewhere in the eye/upper-nose region.
Although that day marked my first received punch, it was not my first experience of life imitating cartoon.
Ill give you a more pleasant trope to ponder.
This example involves my other brother.
(I have two.)
Last year, he and his wife had a baby.
But miraculously, nobody calls Baby Frank by a diminutive.
He is simply Frank.
The comic possibilities inherent in a cherubic dough ball with an extremely adult name cannot be overstated.
Six words that will forever change your baby-viewing habits.
Regardless, this book is an exhilarating place to start if youre interested in brushing up.
(Emphasis on to start, since it was published in 1968 and is only 117 pages long.)
The rest of you: Climb aboard, freaks!
Dick begins seeing a psychiatrist at age 14.
For reasons not based in reality, he develops a severe phobia of turning into a homosexual.
The fear is extinguished when he loses his virginity (to a female) and marries her.
They get divorced, and Dick starts writing science fiction as well as literary fiction.
It is a rocky start: At one point, he receives 17 rejection letters in a single day.
He is so poor he buys horse meat at a pet store and eats it for dinner.
Yet I see no reason to quarrel with such flourishes.
The jacket copy refers to the biography asunconventional, so you cant say you werent warned.
Do you perhaps identifyasa difficult fruit?
Difficult is subjective, of course, and so is Lebos book.
Its part memoir, part essay, part culinary odyssey.
It is all related.
There are detailed recipes appended to each chapter.
(If you think theyre interchangeable, prepare yourself for the cold hard slap of reality.)
If you wait too long, it starts smelling like bleach.
Eat it too early, and itll pickle your tongue.
(Or simply watch in awe as Wendy C. Ortizdoes just that?)
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