[UA] [OT] Harlan E.

[Gregory Paul Stolze]

What follows is my friend Rob's HA anecdote.  (Rob works for AEG.)

>    Ellison was at the LA Times Book Faire at UCLA. He entertained the crowd
>with his usual angry young man shtick (which is quite amusing if you can
>detach yourself from his jawdropping ego), then retired to sign autographs.
>He was very gracious and stayed for hours, getting everyone's signatures and
>chatting briefly with them when they came up. I was wearing my Syracuse
>T-shirt, and as he was signing my book, he asked what I studied there. I said
>"English."
>    His pen stopped and he gave me the hairy eyeball.
>    He then asked "And what do you do now?"
>    "I'm a writer," I said.
>    Then he REALLY gave me the hairy eyeball.
>    "Who do you write for?" he growled.
>    "I work for a role-playing games company," I said.
>    "So you get paid."
>    "Yes. Full time."
>    He instantly relaxed and continued signing. "Oh, okay. It's good honest
>work," he said, "although not as honest as a plumber or electrician."
>    I shrugged and said sure. I told him that I didn't have any illusions
>about what I did, but I didn't have any regets either. He perked up and told
>to write something for myself every once in awhile. I told him that I did. He
>smiled and said "Then you have no worries." Signed book in hand, I went on my
>merry way.

Seems fairly harmless.  Even benign.

-G.
Critics are like medical students: they always think a writer is suffering
from the very disease they happen to be studying at the time.
		-Milorad Pavic

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