Bueno, Andrew. Item by item, I can see exactly what you are talking about!
And don't let anybody tell you to keep it to yourself.
Stephen V
> Possibly you've seen them in shopping centres,
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> talking to themselves, or so you've thought,
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> but they are novelists
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> at the end of a long journey
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> chatting to their characters.
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> You're right to be sceptical - after all
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> you can't see who they are talking to -
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> you'll see them later when you read
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> the tale or it is turned into a mini series.
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> By then they may be on the best sellers list
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> at the bookshop along with a news item
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> how the novelist, so well-respected and of
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> good family, was taken away from
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> a shopping centre recently and incarcerated -
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> a complete breakdown, talking to everyone
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> and no one, including watermelons and celery .
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> Poets on the other hand . they turn up
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> at the checkout with empty baskets
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> and are amazed no one can see their items.
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> Andrew Burke
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