

He’s also the same obsessive perfectionist who checks, double checks and then rechecks his work – tweaking and toiling, grafting and molding every sentence, no one more or less important than another. In Tibetan Peach Pie, Robbins moves with the same rhythm, speaks with the same lyrical prose as with his novels. And that is: Who knows how to make love stay? Answer me that and I will tell you whether or not to kill yourself.”

Camus clearly got up on the wrong side of bed, and Robbins must have forgotten to set the alarm.

Tom Robbins wrote that the only serious question is whether time has a beginning and an end. From Even Cowgirls Get the Blues: “What looks to be a wisp of cloud is actually the moon, narrow and pale like a paring snipped from a snowman’s toenail.”įrom Still Life with Woodpecker: “Albert Camus wrote that the only serious question is whether to kill yourself or not.
