Background Information on the Stories in AA's Big Book

rriley9945.RemoveThis@aol.com (RRiley9945) wrote in
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 > I just purchased a book which tells the biographies of the people who
 > wrote the stories in the first three editions of the Big Book. There
 > is no author or copyright material so I willing to make copies for
 > anyone who might be interested. It is 103 pages long and all I ask is
 > the cost of Xeroxing and postage.

How do you know it isn't covered by copyright? Is it explicitly placed in
the public domain? Otherwise, chances are it is copyrighted.

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"Alfred Armstrong" <alfred.TakeThisOut@oddbooks.co.uk> wrote
 > How do you know it isn't covered by copyright? Is it explicitly placed in
 > the public domain? Otherwise, chances are it is copyrighted.

I'll bet when you were a kid you were the one who told the teacher who
misbehaved when she was out of the room.
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 > "Alfred Armstrong" <alfred DeleteThis @oddbooks.co.uk> wrote
  >> How do you know it isn't covered by copyright? Is it explicitly
  >> placed in the public domain? Otherwise, chances are it is
  >> copyrighted.
 >
 > I'll bet when you were a kid you were the one who told the teacher who
 > misbehaved when she was out of the room.

As usual, your reading of character is way off.

I was the sort of kid who pedantically corrected other kids' errors of
fact, when we were all hanging round together chewing the fat.

Nyah.

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"Alfred Armstrong" <alfred.RemoveThis@oddbooks.co.uk> wrote
 > I was the sort of kid who pedantically corrected other kids' errors of
 > fact, when we were all hanging round together chewing the fat.

I'll bet you got beat up a lot.

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 > "Alfred Armstrong" <alfred.DeleteThis@oddbooks.co.uk> wrote
  >> I was the sort of kid who pedantically corrected other kids' errors of
  >> fact, when we were all hanging round together chewing the fat.
 >
 > I'll bet you got beat up a lot.

Wishful thinking: in fact, due to my great wit and charm, I was
universally popular.

To return to books, can anyone suggest any great, unreliable,
autobiographies? I am a big fan of Frank Harris's _My Life and Loves_ and
I wonder what other liars' memoirs are out there.

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"Alfred Armstrong" <alfred DeleteThis @oddbooks.co.uk> wrote in message
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 > "fwdixon" <spamless DeleteThis @yahoo.com> wrote in news:bggf1l$onsgr$1@ID-
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  > > "Alfred Armstrong" <alfred DeleteThis @oddbooks.co.uk> wrote
   > >> I was the sort of kid who pedantically corrected other kids' errors of
   > >> fact, when we were all hanging round together chewing the fat.
  > >
  > > I'll bet you got beat up a lot.
 >
 > Wishful thinking: in fact, due to my great wit and charm, I was
 > universally popular.
 >
 > To return to books, can anyone suggest any great, unreliable,
 > autobiographies? I am a big fan of Frank Harris's _My Life and Loves_ and
 > I wonder what other liars' memoirs are out there.


Lillian Hellman's memoirs--An Unfinished Woman, Pentimento, Scoundrel Time,
and Maybe--are notoriously riddled with self-serving lies. Mary McCarthy
once said of Hellman, "Every word she writes is a lie-including 'and' and
'the.' "


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On 2 Aug 2003 14:54:27 GMT, Alfred Armstrong <alfred RemoveThis @oddbooks.co.uk>
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 >"fwdixon" <spamless RemoveThis @yahoo.com> wrote in news:bggf1l$onsgr$1@ID-
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  >> "Alfred Armstrong" <alfred RemoveThis @oddbooks.co.uk> wrote
   >>> I was the sort of kid who pedantically corrected other kids' errors of
   >>> fact, when we were all hanging round together chewing the fat.
  >>
  >> I'll bet you got beat up a lot.
 >
 >Wishful thinking: in fact, due to my great wit and charm, I was
 >universally popular.
 >
 >To return to books, can anyone suggest any great, unreliable,
 >autobiographies? I am a big fan of Frank Harris's _My Life and Loves_ and
 >I wonder what other liars' memoirs are out there.

I would highly recommend "The Confessions of Aleister Crowley : An
Autobiography" as such a book.



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"Jon Meyers" wrote...
> "Alfred Armstrong" wrote...
> > ...I wonder what other liars' memoirs are out there.
>
> Lillian Hellman's memoirs--An Unfinished Woman, Pentimento, Scoundrel
Time,
> and Maybe--are notoriously riddled with self-serving lies....

An obvious one, in a much less literary vein: Chuck Barris's "Confessions of
a Dangerous Mind," in which the creator of The Dating Game, The Newlywed
Game, and The Gong Show claims that he was also a CIA hitman. If Chuck
Barris ever assassinated anybody, then I'm the starting middle linebacker
for the Rams...


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One of the greats: I WAS A WHITE SLAVE IN HARLEM by Margo Howard-Howard (born
Robert Hesse) [NY: 4 Walls 8 Windows, 1988], Warhol associate and pre-eminent
drag queen. The early part (birth to a highborn diplomat, youth in Malaysia) is
entirely spurious (Hesse was born and raised in Brooklyn); the rest is at least
wildly exaggerated and vastly entertaining. She was a great raconteur, and the
book reads like one of the storytelling marathons she would launch into after a
few drinks (I was privileged to be present for a few of these). Margo sadly
died at New York Hospital just before the book came out -- the same hospital
Andy Warhol died in the year before following a routine operation. I remember
Taylor Mead, a few days after Margo died, saying, "Honey, if I ever need a
doctor, whatever you do, DON'T take me to New York Hospital!"

Alfred Armstrong writes:

 >To return to books, can anyone suggest any great, unreliable,
 >autobiographies? I am a big fan of Frank Harris's _My Life and Loves_ and
 >I wonder what other liars' memoirs are out there.


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