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The Deep & Savage Way: Liner Notes Note: when I originally published The Deep & Savage Way in 1994, I included the following ridiculously self-indulgent "liner notes" in the back. In the spirit of full disclosure, I'm including them here in the online edition, with some minor emendations. I think a novel should be like an album, and have a bunch of tiny writing telling you where it was written, and how, along with thanks, acknowledgments, inside jokes and a lot of other self-indulgent BS. Not in the front, where it wastes the reader's time when they should be reading the story, but in back, where they can study it at their leisure. I've been working on this project for more than three years. First of all, I'd like to thank everyone who plowed through the early versions and are still with me. My parents deserve thanks, too, for (mostly) putting up with my spells of seeming directionlessness and providing me with places to live, as well as a computer to write with. I must thank the people in my family who took the time to read what I've written: my mom, my sister Anne and my aunt Nancy. And then there are my friends, who have been both inspiration, support and critical readers: Sarah, Dave A., Bexy, Leslie, Matt, Galen, Virginia, Nicole, Marcos, Colette, Jessica and Dave W. Misc thanks: Margaret Brose, for her class "Dante In Translation" which inspired the whole thing in the first place. Applied Economics Partners, for letting me use their Mac & Laser Printer. Still Life in Fremont Cafe, my second home in Seattle, WA. Printer's Inc. Cafe in Palo Alto, CA, where I spent many hours during the summer of '92. Kay Downs of the Aldus Corp., who gave me the copy of PageMaker that I used to make this edition. All the folks at iCat for being so cool to work with. God & and any other eternal powers who may have been watching over me. Fozboot and Otto for being my familiars. I wrote this novel with Macintosh computers-started it on a Mac Plus, also on a IIci, Classic II and finally, my beloved PowerBook Duo 230. I composed it with Microsoft Word 5.1 and created the typeset edition you're now reading with Aldus PageMaker 5.0. Music that inspired me when I wrote: Alice In Chains, the Allman Brothers, the Beatles, John Coltrane, Cracker, Miles Davis, Grateful Dead, Jane's Addiction, Led Zeppelin, Mother Love Bone, Parliament/ Funkadelic, Pearl Jam, Robert Plant, R. E. M., Smashing Pumpkins, Soundgarden, Sugar, Temple of the Dog, U2, Neil Young. And thanks to Hank Greenwald, Bill King & Lon Simmons, for providing the perfect background sound to summer nights in the bay area. Shouts out to the writers who made me want to be a writer: Dante Aligheri, Mikhail Bulgakov, Robertson Davies, George Eliot, E. M. Forster, Johann von Goethe, Nikolai Gogol, James Joyce, Milan Kundera, William Shakespeare, Leo Tolstoy.