Notes for the Lifebox, the Seashell, and the Soul - Rudy Rucker

Notes for The Lifebox, the Seashell, and the Soul, by Rudy Rucker
On Avalon’s behalf I will say that the made a nice spread for the book in their
catalog. And they revised the cover to use a photo I took of an actual textile cone shell that
Wolfram himself gave me, my personal talisman. And, of course, they were, via Oakes, one
of the only houses willing to publish my idiosyncratic book.
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So I slogged thru it and mailed it back today. Did a rewrite of the ending, made it
more upbeat. Before the ending was, like, “nah, none of this true.” My bad old “Imp of the
Perverse” had taken over last August-September, my underminer. But I brought it back to be
more hard-hitting.
Here’s a picture of the revised last page.
p. 140