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From: linden@positive.eng.sun.com (Peter van der Linden)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: The Remarkably Diverse Literary Career of PvDL
Date: 11 Aug 1994 20:42:21 GMT

Only the C book and the practical joke book are mine tho'!

Those other ones belong to an imposter! In fact, here is an extract from the practical joke book:

# Go and look up "Books In Print" at any bookstore; it's a # massive multi-volume work, indexed by author name. You can # easily find several books written by someone with the exact same # name as you.
#
# Buy them, and adorn your office or study with "your" books! For # example, I always thought that my surname was pretty unusual but # there is a whole page of "van der Linden", including three # different authors also sharing my first name! I selected # "Squatter Settlements in Karachi" which is strange and obscure # enough for even me.
#
# Buy several copies of the work and give them to your friends as # Christmas presents. You can even autograph them for added # amusement. When disbelievers comment on your hitherto-unknown # literary talents intone a meaningful hollow laugh and point out # that you have many talents that you have not yet revealed.

--
Peter van der Linden linden@eng.sun.com today's Vicki Robinson anagram: "I, Vin, scorn Kibo"


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