<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/f0616ff2-ad91-445f-ac25-def3e5985b32/B8B8CCEF-B992-4BDE-9DB4-D292BC0C87D4/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/feature/-/43678/ref=b_bh_c_c_iam4/002-0230896-7812861" href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/feature/-/43678/ref=b_bh_c_c_iam4/002-0230896-7812861" style="font-size: 11px;">www.amazon.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/feature/-/43678/ref=b_bh_c_c_iam4/002-0230896-7812861"><P><SPAN class="h3color"><B>Robbins: </B></SPAN> Bruce Chatwin's impact on <I>Fierce Invalids</I> was limited to a single journal entry in which he mentions a small, mysterious, mud-walled oasis that he passed but did not visit. That brief entry struck the flint in my imaginative Zippo, causing me to ask myself the most essential question of the creative process: "What if...?" Now that I think about it, I suppose one could say that Switters shares Chatwin's attraction to the nomadic life. </P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/feature/-/43678/ref=b_bh_c_c_iam4/002-0230896-7812861"><P><SPAN class="h3color"><B>Robbins: </B></SPAN> Although he has his share of troubles and travails, and prefers desert to jungle, Switters finds the sweet life pretty much wherever he gets off the bus. Why? Because he <I>insists</I> on it. Like happiness, the sweet life doesn't just show up at your door one day, nor is it hiding out from you somewhere in Tuscany. You have to manufacture it, you have to create it. <I>La dolce vita</I> , babies! It's up to you. </P></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/B8B8CCEF-B992-4BDE-9DB4-D292BC0C87D4/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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