Quotation of November

This is Daniel's first Grateful Dead concert. Having seen the freaxky skeleton video on MTV, Daniel is curious about the Dead, but not curious to the point of drugging, which might affect his GPA and condemn him to a life batter-frying poultry by-products in fast-food restaurants. Ross, in his FUCK THA POLICE T-shirt, is Daniels old high school buddy from San Raphael. Thankfully tolerant of Daniel's nerdiness, Ross can occasionally inflict a graze wound: "I smell oregano burning. Is Daniel nearby?"

This is a quotation from Douglas Coupland's novel Polaroids from the Dead, which is really a mixture of fiction and documentary. With a Grateful Dead concert as the centre point, he introduces us to many of the characters attending and avoiding the concert, both the surviving hippies from the sixties and their modern more plastic and practically-minded decendants. The fabulous Canadian writer/artist Douglas Coupland has an official homepage at www.coupland.com and you will find more quotations from his books if you check out my old (and probably new) quotations.

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