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  • >> [MUSIC: RAFAEL IRIARTE AND ROSENDO PESOALIBERTADFMA]

  • >> Tom Robbins: I think when I'm 80 years old, 85, hopefully,

  • I'll be pushed around in a wheelchair by a red-headed nurse with panty outline.

  • She'll make me little tequila sunrises and I'll read my complete works then.

  • Then, I'll decide whether I think I've done something good or not.

  • I'll reserve my judgment until then.

  • >> [Music: RAFAEL IRIARTE AND ROSENDO PESOALIBERTADcontinues]

  • >> Tod Mesirow: Tell me how you write because I know Remingtons have played a focal point

  • in some of your past books.

  • >> Tom Robbins: I owned an electric Remington, briefly, but we had a turbulent relationship.

  • . It made so much noise, it hummed all the time,

  • it was like it was looking over your shoulder, egging you on, wanting you to work

  • at a far faster pace than I am capable of working. Plus, it was ugly,

  • some strange off-blue kind of teal color. Eventually, I just took a 2-by-4 and destroyed it.

  • I work now with pen and paper. That's my favorite way to write.

  • I love the way the ink sinks into the wood, soaks into the wood pulp.

  • There's something about that process that's so organic.

  • I'd like to go back to the raven quill, actually,

  • dipped in lizard blood or something. Write on orange butcher paper.

  • >> [Music: RAFAEL IRIARTE AND ROSENDO PESOALIBERTADcontinues]

  • >> Tom Robbins: I started writing when I was 5 years old.

  • I would dictate stories to my mother, and she would copy them in a scrapbook.

  • If she changed anything to make it, in her opinion, better, I would throw a tantrum.

  • I can't remember exactly the first thing I wrote,

  • but one of the stories, was about a pilot whose plane crashed on a desert island,

  • and the only other life on the island was a brown cow with yellow spots.

  • The cow hadto survive, had taught itself to eat and get nutriments from sand.

  • I guess, I've always been interested in adaptability and taking whatever life hands you and running with it.

  • >> [MUSIC: COOPER-MOORE “(H) BANJO ARBA MINCH GARDEN”]

  • >> Tom Robbins: First I think I was interested in the stories, and later on,

  • I became more interested in the language itself, so the stories became almost secondary,

  • but it was kind of a background music for my life.

  • I had a stick, and I used to go out in the backyard and fantasize, often aloud,

  • and I would tell these stories. I would beat the ground with the stick.

  • And then even today when I get excited about an idea when I'm writing,

  • I often will pace the room, and I'll slap my legs.

  • I've always been too ashamed to talk about this bizarre behavior,

  • but I was telling my paramour about it and she said, "Well, you were drumming,"

  • and that hadn't occurred to me before. That's exactly what I was doing,

  • was drumming out the story, setting up a rhythm behind the story.

  • >> [MUSIC: COOPER-MOORE “(H) BANJO ARBA MINCH GARDENcontinues]

  • >> Tom Robbins: There's not a word in one of my books that hasn't been gone over 25, 30, 35, 40 times.

  • I read every sentence over and over again and rework it,

  • not particularly looking for a more shining truth, but looking for the right rhythm.

  • It's like compulsive hand washing or something.

  • Words on a page can hypnotize you if the rhythm is right.

  • >> [Music: FLY LAZARUS FLYSTREET LIGHTS”]

  • >> Tom Robbins: I never outline. I don't work from an outline.

  • I have no idea where the book is going.

  • I mean, even two-thirds of the way through, I don't know how it's going to end.

  • If I knew how it was going to end, I probably wouldn't write it.

  • I finish the book so I can see how it's going to end.

  • I write that first sentence, and if it's the right first sentence,

  • it leads to the right second sentence and three years later you have a 500-page manuscript,

  • but it really is like going on a trip, going on a journey. It's a voyage.

  • >> [Music: FLY LAZARUS FLYSTREET LIGHTScontinues]

  • >> Tom Robbins: When I finished my second book, I looked in the mirror,

  • and I was all pale and wan and emaciated and bags under my eyes,

  • and I said, "What you need, Tom, is a trip up the Amazon."

  • Three days later, I got an offer to take a trip up a river in Africa.

  • It wasn't the Amazon, but it was close.

  • Ever since, whenever I finish a book, I go off and have some kind of adventure.

  • Having had an adventure in my writing chair or on my writing sofa, an internal adventure,

  • then I need to balance that off with an external adventure,

  • so I'll go tramping through Africa or whitewater rafting

  • or float to Hawaii in a martini shaker or something.

  • >> [Music: FLY LAZARUS FLYSTREET LIGHTScontinues]

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