Gemma: Why is no one speaking to us?
Norette: Uh, probably because we're not offering them thousands for a manuscript, or placing a large order for books, maybe.
Gemma: No, that's not it.
Lady-willing-to-talk-to-students-at-the-London-Book-Fair: Hello, do you have a minute? I'd like to invite you to a reading.
Gemma: Great. Will Paul Auster be there?
LWTTTSATLBF: It'll be a reading from Dianetics by L. Ron Hubbard.
Gemma to Norette: Is that the guy from Happy Days?
Norette: Um, no.
LWTTTSATLBF: The reading's this evening.
Gemma: Will the author be there?
LWTTTSATLBF: No, he died in 1986.
Gemma: Oh, so he'll be there in spirit.
*now known as "the Publishing Ladies"
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When i'm feeling blue, all I have to do is . . . think about L Ron Hubbard in the diner wearing a cardigan and talking with the Fonz . . .
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