--- kerry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I just read "She's Come Undone" by Wally Lamb and
> came across a Joni
> reference:
>
> The main character was asking someone who had just
> been at Woodstock if she
> had seen her friends:
>
> Naomi laughed. "That was the thing about
> Woodstock. You didn't think
> of people as individuals. We were all this....mass
> entity."
> "Oh," I said. "Right."
> She must have seen my disappointment. "I was
> two people back from Joni
> Mitchell in the portable toilet line, though," she
> said.
> "Joni Mitchell used the public toilets?"
> "Well, yeah. See the whole point was that
> we're all one, you know?
> You and me and Joni and that tall, skinny friend: a
> bunch of equals sharing
> the same small planet. It was a rush - very
> political!"
>
>
> Overall, it was an interesting book, but he
> obviously didn't check his facts
> on this one! :>)
>
I read that - good book. His other one about the twin
brothers is very good too. I suspect Lamb was being
kind of tongue-in-cheek about that - putting those
words in the character's mouth, to show you the
character was pretty much full of s**t.
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