I would like to thank all the little people who made this possible.

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Thanks, especially, to the little men who lived in my wallpaper when I was a child and came out late at night when I should have been sleeping and marched around carrying things on their heads.

And the little people who lived in my uncle’s field and watched me when I had to walk home through the field, alone, after dark after playing checkers with him and telling him stories about my career as a Marine during the war.

And to the little people who built their huts in the overgrown nut orchard out by the sewage treatment plant where we built our forts.

Thank you for not killing me, all of you.

15 responses to “I would like to thank all the little people who made this possible.

  1. Congratulations on a job well done. I cannot wait for the movie version of “The Man Who Downloaded His Brain Into A Computer.”

    Does this mean we go back to our regularly scheduled conversing?

  2. Bauke

    I finished the first chapter, will print it out to read in the train later. verry interesting so far.

  3. wow, and so early in the month, too! bravo!

  4. welcome back to the world of word racer! muahaha

  5. Yowza. I’m bowled over. So, where do we go to get the chapters, huh?

  6. miguel

    mig’s special 10-day novel recipe: unlimited time at PC + large jar of Neskafkafe crystals + pound of coherence + half pound each of characters and plot. unfortunately the store was all out of coherence. as soon as i find some to add i’ll make the mss available.

  7. Grrrr. You are the devil incarnate, and I loathe you.

    *only 37,000 frickin’ more words to go…grumble, grumble*

  8. You are an inspiration.

    38,605. And I have strep throat, still. Hear me, world? I’m sick! But Mig’s finished his quota! Write, little hands, write!

    Congratufrickinlations. I can’t wait to read it, I know it will be good.

  9. mic

    Probably one of the few that’s readable. Word.

  10. I imagine that this was in your orientation packet, but it took Stendhal 7 weeks to write “The Red and the Black”. You beat him by 3 or 4.

  11. congratulations, Mig!

  12. When will the Dutch translation be available?

  13. Miguel

    great idea: if i run it through babelfish, it might finally make sense.

  14. Miguel

    Re: Stendahl, I still haven’t finished the rewrite so his “record” is still safe. OTOH, I’ve been orienting myself more towards Robert Louis Stevenson (?) who wrote Dr. Jekyl and Mr. Hyde in three days, allegedly, sick with a fever.

  15. D

    Can we have a new Bug now please? The other one is getting stale.