Arrgg
just decided that since I can't get a refund on this, I might as well install XP that came with computer. Horrid idea.
The partition based installer came with a whole pile of shovel-ware. I had to uninstall them. Then, XP overwrote GRUB. Then, somehow, my ubuntu partition disappeared.
Now just repartitioning and reinstalling karmic.
Luckly, my user data was completely backed up in one form or another.
During the 1960s, he began to garner acclaim in the genre, winning a Hugo Award for his 1962 alternate history novel "The Man in the High Castle," which imagines a world in which the Axis powers won the World War II. Still, the mainstream had no idea of who he was. "I used to look at his apartment," recalls his daughter Isa, now 42, "see all the books he had there, and wonder if every copy of his books was right there in his apartment. 'Is he really a real author?'
Man, this is so trippy. I was reading his short stories last night because I was having nightmares about ... you'know, I don't remember.
His stories were kind of freaky. Kafka-esque stuff that my worse nightmares couldn't produce. Went back to sleep like a baby. Better than warm milk.
Finally, they got down to business. Salinger insisted on having no dust jacket, only a bare cover with cloth of great durability -- buckram. They talked pica lengths, fonts and space between lines. They were going to do a press run somewhere in the low thousands. No advertising whatsoever. But for how much? Lathbury remembers that Salinger did not ask for an advance and that any money to be made would come from sales.
Here is a writer!
J. D. Salinger, wrangling with a potential editor over line spacing and book pricing.
