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Apr 6 17:23 UTC 1999

This quote is from a living American writer:

             The study -- sold as a prefabricated toolshed -- is
        eight feet by ten feet. Like a plane's cockpit, it is
        crammed with high-tech equipment. There is no quill pen
        in sight. There is a computer, a printer, and a photo-
        copying machine. My backless chair, a prie-dieu on which
        I kneel, slides under the desk; I give it a little kick
        when I leave. There is an air conditioner, a heater, and
        an electric kettle. There is a low-tech bookshelf, a
        shelf of gull and whale bones, and a bed. Under the bed
        I stow paints -- a one-pint can of yellow to touch up
        the window's trim, and five or six tubes of artists'
        oils. The study affords ample room for one. One who is
        supposed to be writing books. You can read in the space
        of a coffin, and you can write in the space of a tool-
        shed meant for mowers and spades.