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    The Artist, The Painter, The Idiot, The Troubador, And Carlos The Bunn
    The Artist, The Painter, The Idiot, The Troubador, And Carlos The Bunn
    The Artist, The Painter, The Idiot, The Troubador, And Carlos The Bunn
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    The Artist, The Painter, The Idiot, The Troubador, And Carlos The Bunn

    By Alec Xander

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    Five off-the-wall character sketches intended to entertain and lampoon the pseudo-intellectual class. The Artist, The Painter, The Idiot, The Troubador, And Carlos The Bunn will make you appreciate the fact that whoever you are, you aren't one of them!

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    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherAlec Xander
    Release dateApr 11, 2010
    The Artist, The Painter, The Idiot, The Troubador, And Carlos The Bunn
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    Alec Xander

    Alec writes in Atlanta.

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      The Artist, The Painter, The Idiot, The Troubador, And Carlos The Bunn - Alec Xander

      THE ARTIST, THE PAINTER, THE IDIOT, THE TROUBADOR, AND CARLOS THE BUNN

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      The Artist

      He was an artist and his fame was pre-ordained. The son of a doctor -- like Kafka -- and a slightly distant mother -- like Jung -- the mark of success had early been visible upon his breast. The sensibilities he inherited in the soul of Percy Byshe curdled quickly in the bourgoise household of his youth, as well they should, and his subsequent rise toward eminence had featured the very same abandonment by parent and abuse by peer that formed a poet. At university -- where his contemporaries merely attended college to get good grades and get laid -- he wandered aloof like cloudless clime and starry sky and all

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