Heh. looking at old email.
I sent an email to 377 back then with this text, after I first read Sheridan's book.
That's the 2nd entry part here.
The weird thing is this first section. I included this at the end of the email to 377
I had forgotten that. I have no idea what was posted, or why I made note of it or how I found it.
BUT HERE'S THE THING THAT'S CREEPY. you can go to that page. It's still there.
I remember it freaked me out when I saw it. Because for some reason I thought it was timed to my purchase. But who knows, maybe I was just seeing ghosts at the time or doing a random search
Look at the date on the web page. Saturday, November 8, 2008 (post at 2:27 AM by eagleeyepete)
I bought my copy on 11/9/08 according to the email I sent 377
But the note below says I posted Rimbaud's prose on 11/6/08 at DZ.com
Maybe I hadn't bought it yet.
I remember thinking "Geez, was he just trying to publish it and I landed on it? Or is he talking to me??"
This is the blog that appeared two days (11/8/08) after I posted Rimbaud's prose at DZ.com (11/06/08)
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that might have just been coincidence. That solitary entry may have been created when he replied to another blog or something. It seems odd, like he made the post in someone else's blog, and it got created on his blog. I don't know what it means, if anything.This was the beginning of the email
This will include everything about the manuscript as source material and some important background/details. It will take you some time to digest the manuscript. It might be unsettling, too close to his psyche.
Sheridan refers to this manuscript elsewhere, with two different page counts. Almost twice the actual readable page count without duplication.
I suspect he typewrote the book in the '70-'73 as described by him elsewhere so it was longer, and it shrunk when transferred to this pdf, or computer formatted document, in the late '90s probably. It has 339 readable pages.
He refers to it as a Vietnam "protest" novel, and his back cover takes advantage of referring to Iraq and Afghanistan lessons. It has some of the feel of Catch 22, but not as good. He relies too much on getting all of his autobiographical details in, so it ends up being more of a biography, spread over multiple characters, than a focused protest novel. There are scenes that are probably overdramatized, especially some of the sexual ones. Some of the other violent/brutal/atrocity depictions may likely be accurate. All of it may be accurate in some way. We can extract key stateside details of Sheridan's life from it, I think. The ending is important, I think, also. It's kind of a dual ending.
I actually enjoy the structure of Sheridan's writing. He surprisingly has a lot of spelling/capitalization errors. He must not use the spell check function in his software. He sometimes tends to short, declarative sentences betraying his journalistic background, I think?
