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Joe Riley · 18 Dec 2007, 08:22 · from 2007-December.txt.gz

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From: whamdoodler at yahoo.com (Joe Riley)
Date: Tue, 18 Dec 2007 00:22:26 -0800 (PST)
Subject: (urth) 7AN
In-Reply-To: <BAY129-W151A840AEC7DEAA3C1EC1786630 at phx.gbl>
Message-ID: <872609.36188.qm at web38508.mail.mud.yahoo.com>

In the midst of all that is being debated:

  I just finished reading Seven American Nights.  I have perused the archives, but I have an unanswered question that keeps nagging at me:

  What evidence do we have that the journal is authentic?  Between the self-writing machine and the finale, where in response to the question about handwriting, the old woman says, "Perhaps, perhaps," we see nothing to confirm this story as factual.  

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