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All plot comes from the character's trying to get something, to achieve something, wanting, desiring, longing.

Robert Olen Butler

And so, given the musical sensibilities Hatcher treasured in his earthly life, it is hard to exaggerate the severity of his torture at standing naked in his tiny kitchen in Hell as former FBI director J. Edgar Hoover sings a Bee Gees disco song backed by a full studio orchestra and Robin and Maurice.

Robert Olen Butler

The monitor presently shows the Windows Blue Screen of Death, though this does not alarm him, as the BSoD is the universal screen saver in Hell.

Robert Olen Butler

That's really the best ambition, to be hungry for sensual experience in your life. Ravenous. Artists are not intellectuals. We are sensualists.

Robert Olen Butler

Robert Olen Butler

Robert Olen Butler

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Born: January 20, 1945 (age 80)

Bio: Robert Olen Butler is an American fiction writer. His short-story collection A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for fiction in 1993.

Known for:

A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain (1992)
From Where You Dream (2005)
Tabloid Dreams (1996)
The deep green sea (1997)
The Alleys of Eden (1981)

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