Whoa.

Tom Robbins died on February 9th.

Didn't see any mention in any press, anywhere here in Australia, or socially.

I've had an online persona named from one of his characters for literally decades - and still do. I'm pretty attached to the name and the character, even now.

I didn't like his most recent work, he was going a bit off the rails, and tbh even his older work I reread and find a fair bit too male-gazey, even with his kooky magic realism and hippie sensibilities.

Still, sadface. He inspired me hugely in my 20s. Vale.

#TomRobbins #jitterbugperfume #mementomori

#JitterbugPerfume is one of my favourite books. Farewell #TomRobbins 🕊️

“The beet is the most intense of vegetables. The radish, admittedly, is more feverish, but the fire of the radish is a cold fire, the fire of discontent not of passion. Tomatoes are lusty enough, yet there runs through tomatoes an undercurrent of frivolity. Beets are deadly serious….

The beet is the melancholy vegetable, the one most willing to suffer. You can't squeeze blood out of a turnip...”

One of my favorite writers, Tom Robbins, is dead. His book Jitterbug Perfume made immortality feel like an act of defiance, gave us Alobar, the king who refused to rot. And now he's gone. No beet pollen, no tantric rituals, just the final punctuation marks we all get eventually.

#TomRobbins
#JitterbugPerfume

"The beet is the ancient ancestor of the autumn moon, bearded, buried, all but fossilized; the dark green sails of the grounded moon-boat stitched with veins of primordial plasma..."

http://weirdvegetables.blogspot.com/2008/11/passion-of-beet.html

#beets #magic #JitterbugPerfume