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...that many of said details were more vivid in their fictional context than when you set them down years later as autobiography. However, your explanation that Ganin was closer in time to the details than you were as an autobiographer is too hasty. May I direct your attention to Ada, a bestseller about time and memory in which an elderly gentleman conjures up his distant past with the most palpable details imaginable...
Village Justice John B. Whalen gave Carrozzi a conditional discharge, freeing him "on the condition that you no longer grow marijuana." Replied Carrozzi: "No, no, never more in my life!" Mused his wife Ada: "Always I wondered why in America, where they have everything, they did not have canapa seeds. I look everywhere for them-even in the birdseed. How come, I wonder, they do not have? Now I know...
...versa-had sex with Erika too. He was also attracted to Eric, though they never quite made it to bed. In addition, there is Marietta Donegal, an aging mystical novelist who was once lover to both men. The incest angle is best read as a suborbital send-up of Ada, Vladimir Nabokov's incestuous riddle of time and memory. For starters there is Van Damm and Nabokov's Van Veen...
...Born in Ada, Ohio. Rollo Reese May studied psychoanalysis under Alfred Adler, who was one of Freud's apostates. He also studied art in Poland and Greece and, after returning from Europe in the 1930s, enrolled in New York's Union Theological Seminary .-"to ask questions, ultimate questions about human beings-not to be a preacher." He did serve briefly in a Congregational parish in Verona, NJ. The years he spent as a tuberculosis patient brought this varied background into focus. There, face to face with death, he discovered what he took to be its true relation...
Delighted that her wayward daughter had at last settled into a life she could dig. Ada and her latest charlie sent more money. When it arrived, Merilee set out to become a proper wife...