--David

QUESTION: You have just completed your 300 page autobiography. Please submit page 217.

ing about paradoxes. I would never see them again.

It was about this time that I was frantically completing college applications. Why, I could probably write, oh, say, 83 pages just about what happened between the time I began my applications up until the time I was approached by Random House to write this autobiography.

The application process was tedious at best, but one particular question struck me. One college--I forget which--asked me to submit page 217 of my 300 page autobiography. Reflecting now, it seems especially prophetic. I preserved a copy of my response. I will reproduce it here, unabridged.

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	ing about paradoxes.  I would never see them again.

	     It was about this time that I was frantically 
	completing college applications.  Why, I could 
	probably write, oh, say, 83 pages just about what 
	happened between the time I began my applications up 
	until the time I was approached by Random House to 
	write this autobiography.

	     The application process was tedious at best, but

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