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John_ORBooks2 karma

so...are you a sort of pesticide applied to the plague of corporate publishing? or are you the infestation besetting the bland, tasteless orchard of the mainstream?

John_ORBooks2 karma

And tell us more about the name, please. Whence cometh...?

John_ORBooks1 karma

I believe his stuff was thrown out in the trash after he died--it was only saved by some sharp-eyed individual, a spiritual antecedent to the Instar editors. (And subsequently his paintings and diaries got snapped up by avaricious collectors who've made a mountain of cash buying and selling his work--people who would never have given Darger the time of day, while he was alive.)

John_ORBooks-2 karma

Didn't Darger have a thing for little girls? what are you, crazed publishing perverts?