Cosmic Banditos
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101 José would never have bothered to mug anybody if he hadn’t been stripped of his fortune. (This footnote is aimed at the unastute reader.)
102 About two weeks after I sent Gary this note, an ad addressed to “Mr. Quark” did appear in the lnternational Herald Trib The body of the message was unintelligible, however.
103 A careful reading will also reveal which incidents in this current book were inspired by real events in my life.
104 It has only one footnote, for example.
105 Yes, I’ve come a long way for a guy who thought Amazon.com was a wilderness outfitter.
106 You may also want to buy lots of copies of both books, which you can do through Amazon.com or my own Web site. Listen: In the Foreword to the New Edition I claim that I’ve gotten no advance from the publisher on this book. I wasn’t kidding Zip. And you wouldn’t believe how little I get in terms of per copy royalties. Less than a buck. (Where’s all that money going? A bunch of jerks in suits, where else?) But if you buy a few books, maybe I can make ends meet. I’m counting on you.(!)
(1) This is a Footnote To A Footnote (FTAF—pronounced “Fitaff”), which is something I’ve been dying to pull off. It occurs to me that, given the astronomical rise in value of copies of the last edition, you may want to buy hundreds or even thousands of copies of this edition. As part of your retirement plan, say.
107 I know: This doesn’t work anymore. The phrase the cat’s out of the bag comes to mind.