Not to be Confused

After a conversation with Matt the other day about Virginia Woolf I feel there are a few things I should make clear as a matter literacy and public record. Do not let these things confuse you in the future. Though many may seem the same to the untrained eye believe me, they are not.

This is Thomas Wolfe who, born at the turn of the century, is notable for writing Look Homeward, Angel and You Can't Go Home Again before dying of tuberculosis 1938.

Thomas Wolfe

This is Tom Wolfe who in the 1960s and 70s became famouse as part of the New Journalism movement. He wrote such classics as The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test, The Right Stuff, and The Bonfire of the Vanities. He often wears white.

Tom Wolfe

This is Naked Lunch, it's a book by William S. Burroughs. This is a naked lunch. The differences are negligible.

This is The Electric Ant-

a short story by Philip K. Dick about a man who awakes from a car crash an organic robot (artwork from the upcoming Marvel Comic mini-series based on the story.) And these are electric ants.

Toni Morrison writes about African-Americans and is alive and well. Tony Hillerman wrote about Native Americans and died recently. As did Michael Crichton (died I mean) who wrote about dinosaurs and the such. But this is a Kraken-

...which should not be confused with Cthulhu-

Who was thought up of by this man-

H.P. Lovecraft

Who is not to be confused with Edgar Allen Poe.

"BYE!"

CML