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Experience New Realities by: Jesse S. Somer The Internet and Tom Robbins are both windows into new realities, realities that are prone to incite laughter and ludicrous behaviorisms. These days I go on to the Internet not having any clue as to what is going to grab my interest on that particular day. What is slowly seeping into my subconscious like sludge into the sewer is the idea that I'm probably going to learn something new of interest to my already strange and twisted human existence. Whether the information turns out to be credible is another issue altogether seeing that my fellow human weirdoes are prone to the occasional exaggeration and '˜white lie'. Nonetheless, every time I go for a so-called '˜surf' into the deep blue waves of social consciousness I seem to find myself sitting on some new island of information that inevitably causes a smile to crack across my crystallized serious Internet writer's façade that I must present to my colleagues so that they don't uncover my secret true identity, that being that I'm a Sweet Medicine Clown from the planet Zepton. That last sentence's structure is dedicated to the mastery of Tom Robbins. Today's particular Internet search was triggered by memories of laughter caused by the reading of books by a fellow named Tom Robbins. Although this guy has written eight awesome novels, most people I ask have never heard of him. After searching for sites dedicated to him I did discover that a lot of other people have read his stuff and actually feel very strongly about it. The main site I found was called the AFTRLife at http://www.rain.org/~da5e/tom_robbins.html. The real buzz I experienced was the biographical information I learnt about Robbins' personal history, I mean it's one thing to really be affected by someone's fictional writing, but another dimension altogether to read about what they supposedly got up to in their life. With names like: Another Roadside Attraction '1971
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