Forty-two days of solitude--with breaks. AIDS was not yet a part of the everyday lexicon. Some drugs were still legal. "Classic Rock" was not yet a genre. Nobody had named as airport after Ronald Reagan--he was the new president who'd just survived being shot. And Sullivan Duda went to a cabin in the woods to reflect and write the story of his Journey to the west, when his adventures had culminated in a mystical experience. Now he faced the ultimate question: "To be or not to be?" What do you do after you become God? And when do we eat? Rupert on the other hand, likes to rhyme. Lalalala lalala.
The nerve of some people-I wrote that little blurb, Forty-two days of Solitude, when Dust, Rainbows and Dirty Sox first came out in 2001. [Spoiler alert!] First of all, Sullivan obviously didn't shoot himself-yet. And now he asks me to write another blurb to go inside the new edition: Drugs, Rainbows & Dirty Words. Can't he just let it go? What am I supposed to do? Talk religion? Talk politics? Talk about the bums of Cannery Row-talk about the thousands and thousands of homeless people there are now in a country that could feed the world from its dumpsters and house the poor in its tanks and Hummers, or even set them up in shelters that would withstand tornadoes and hurricanes for a change?Really, you fooled us with that "42 days of solitude with breaks"-it's really more Jack Kerouac than Gabriel Garcia Marquez. (But is it true that Hey, Diddle Diddle-Blood is the Riddle is supposed to be an homage to Love in the Time of Cholera?) - Heather Macleod 2008
Hey, Diddle Diddle--Blood is the Riddle tracks 1984 through 1996 the adventures of Sullivan Duda and his alter ego Rupert in his existential meanderings of coincidence, becoming involved in the North Carolina Hemophilia community to make a short film "A Drop of Blood" about the history of hemophilia and the effect of the contamination of the Blood Supply in the early nineteen eighties.
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