Still Life in Motion (2004)
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My rating: 3.62/5
"Reading this book will enable you to sit still for extended periods of time while your fruit paints you. It is recommended you wear your least favorite hat while reading this. Even if you don't read this yourself (for men) lending this book to women is an almost guaranteed way to make them fall in love with you. (for women) If you're not already in love with yourself, find out why."
Y.S.K (You Should Know) Trivia or Y.S.K.T
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The story I Think Her Name Was Alice started with a working title of I Think Her Name Was Albert in order to hide Alice’s true identity. The title was later changed when someone suggested that the author write a story about Alice. But it wasn’t immediately changed to the famous title it has now. Titles in draft versions included: Gray Alice, Alice, Fucking Alice, and RoboAlice, Why Waitresses Look Weird. Those titles were already taken, however, and the author simply replaced Albert with Alice in the original title
Parts of the brain that lobbied for a cameo in The Sun is the Monster Eye included the cerebrum, the parietal lobe, and the thalamus. The cameo eventually went to the medulla oblongata which popped into the author’s brain without an audition.
Unusual for a book, some of the stories were written out of order while others were not.
The first book of a planned series: Still Life in Motion, Life in Motion, Still in Motion, Still In, Still Still, and In In. Only the first book was written.
The Reading Stories section of the book, particularly Reading Fundamentalisms and Referencing for Cocteau Parties were based on lectures the author was asked to give to a very small group of elementary school children who liked school.
In Blinkpipe when the narrator says “I like the Gaugin…it reminds me of painting and art”, the painting he’s talking about is actually a Matisse. Mrs. O’Reilly doesn’t correct him because it was thought that having Mrs. O'Reilly correct the narrator would make the story more languid.
On My Way to the Village Store to Buy Fresh Alligator Tail and Tiger in Indian Jungle are the only two stories with the words alligator and tiger in the title of two separate stories in the same book.
The book was story-boarded before it was written because the author wanted to show how the ordinary could become extraordinary. That vision was abandoned, however, because it was deemed too gimmicky and just wasn't realistic.
Stories About the Boy Who Lived on Top of the Crane were written as an independent novella but was shortened and included in the book to add 36 pages to the page count.
The author was sued for slander by phone companies from several different countries because the story How to Use a Telephone in Different Foreign Countries associates masturbation with telephones.
The Lily Analysis in How to Use a Telephone in Different Foreign Countries was an actual study done in the 1940s about how men responded to different names they heard over a telephone. Women who said their name was Lily kept men on the phone an average of 3 seconds longer than women who used other names.
The red dress in Evocation of the Acrobat was the same red dress used in other stories in the book. The dress was donated to the author by Martin for the story Minor Character. He had hoped Jane would wear it in the story. Martin was a minor character in the novel the story was about but a major character in the story about the novel. Jane tried the red dress on and liked it but in the end thought it wasn't red enough.
The paragraph of the scene at the end of Tintoretto The Of Said where Martin dives into Delores' womb was improvised.
Julien Sorrel was expected to make a return to literature after 174 years as the main character in :^:$ (the story about the rhetorical question mark). However, Fred Joe-Mare Smith was written in instead. Sorrel stated that he was left out of the story because of his blistering critiques of Music Can Kill a Lion and Notes on Stillness. The author denied the allegation.
In The Sun is the Monster Eye, the whiskey in the glass was a Balvenie 50 Year Old (Cask #4570). The narrator couldn’t drink it straight, however, and instead of adding any soda or swapping out the whiskey for tea, the author brought in a stunt-narrator to take the sip.
The only book written in 2004 that was not nominated for an award of any kind.
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