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From: chabot@amber.DEC (Lisa S. Chabot)
Newsgroups: net.books
Subject: Re: Request for Kilgore Trout titles
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Date: Thu, 27-Sep-84 09:35:23 EDT
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Posted: Thu Sep 27 09:35:23 1984
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The rumor that the works of the master Kilgore Trout could have been ground
out by Kurt Vonnegut Jr. is a vile, vile falsehood!  Vonnegut may make
references to Trout, but this is out of awe or respect.

Those seeking more volumes of Trout are not going to find them on the shelves
of the supermarket paperback section, no!  Only _Venus_On_The_Half-Shell_ is
still in print, so to find other masterpieces one must hunt carefully through
innumerable used book sections.  True Trout fanatics and other searchers claim
to have the best luck, or at least to do the most of their hunting, in the
second-hand section of their handy local adult bookstore.  But their success,
when (if?  sshh sshh!) there are any, are sneaked home in plain brown wrappers
and under coats, and quietly hidden away in misers' hoards (perhaps there is
an extensive black market in Trout first editions?  perhaps they fear death
threats or theft?  the police?  the censure of their family and friends?).

The other problem with Kilgore Trout treasures is that booksellers when sorting
books alphabetically by authors' last names unaccountably will file them under
"F". 

L S Chabot

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