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Book of many authors aiming for Guiness record
By NOEL MURRAY keys and his Levis jacket and thors. Pyle intends to coerce a sen-
Entertainment Wnter walked out the front door." tence each out of interested parties
This is the first sentence of what and thus raise some money for the
“Once upon a time ... on a cool Book Warehouse manager Dave Athens Area Emergency Food
October morning in the sleepy Pyle hopes will be the novel that Bank.
little town of Athens, Ga., our hero, gets in the Guiness Book of World The way the project works is
Bob Deavers, grabbed his wallet, Records for having the most au- that each of the potential authors
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contributes a minimum of 25 cents
to the Food Bank and then he or
she adds a sentence (of any length)
to the novel.
“I’ve seen this done before,” Pyle
said. “By a pen company, six or
seven months ago. But this is, I
think, the first time its been done
for charity."
Deavers is asking that no one
writes more than once sentence
and/or includes anything that
could be considered objectionable.
Beyond that, the additions are lim
ited only by the author’s imagina
tion.
“For some reason, food is a re
curring motif,” he said. *There are
several mentions of linguini.”
The rest of the work-in-progress
contains psychics from Saturn,
gracious witches, neurotic squir
rels and the ever-confused Bob
Deavers.
“It’s a pretty good novel," Pyle
admitted. “It’s entertaining more
than anything.
Thus far, the book has had 95
authors, but Pyle isn’t sure what it
will take to get the record. He’s in
no real hurry to submit it to the
Pyle intends to coerce
a sentence each out of
interested parties.
Guineas committee anyway.
At the moment, his plan is to let
the book go on tour, hitting The
Book Warehouse’s other locations
in Commerce, Ga., and Anderson,
S.C. Also, he’d like to see it go
around to various Georgia high
school English classes. Ultimately,
he hopes it will find a home in the
local public library.
For now, though, the book will
remain in Athens. IMe explained,
“It was scheduled to leave January
22, but it doesn't take up much
space and it’s generating money, so
it might stay longer."
The Book Warehouse is located
in the Beech wood plaza, roughly
betwixt Komix Castle and LeFont
Cinema, on the map of cool Athens
businesses.
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