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Like a lot of what happens in novels, inspiration is a sort of spontaneous combustion--the oily rags of the head and heart.

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Stanley Elkin
Age: 65 †
Born: 1930
Born: May 11
Died: 1995
Died: May 31
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Stanley Lawrence Elkin
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