For one mind-blowing (and disorienting) moment, I thought you were talking about me!
Oh. It's NOT all about me after all... --- In [email protected], "Ellen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > or weird coincidence? I'm taking a course on tape about the city and > urban life as portrayed in the arts and literature, and the instructor > is using the book Moll Flanders by Daniel Defoe as a good example of > literature about urban life. So I looked it up on Amazon and I > discovered that there is an edition of the book with an afterward by > Gina! Yes, our Gina! > > http://www.amazon.com/Moll-Flanders-Signet-Classics- Paperback/dp/0451529855/sr=11-1/qid=1166416873/ref=sr_11_1/102- 1938298-7281767 > or > http://tinyurl.com/ya3xsq > > The weirdest part was that it said that the authors were Daniel Defoe > and Regina Barreca (afterward). At first glance it looks like Mr. > Defoe collaborated with Gina and asked her to write the afterward, > which caused me to do a doubletake. It's only $6--I might have to get > it just to see what Gina has to say. I thought it was pretty funny. > Turns out she wrote the afterward for several female-oriented literary > classics including Portrait of a Lady. The other odd thing was I did > a search on "Regina Barreca" and it listed lots of her books but not > I'm with Stupid, but when I looked up "I'm with Stupid" she is listed > as "Gina Barreca". So all the books where she put her name like that > won't come up in a "Regina Barreca" search. She probably did it like > that for I'm with Stupid because of the "Gene and Gina" thing. > Anyway, I just thought the whole thing was interesting, you may not. >
