Garnet Phillip Tashinga

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Contributing since October, 2023

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About Garnet Phillip Tashinga

the illegitimate son of hunter s thompson and anthony bourdain, he was raised and abandoned in the sewers by a court appointed custodian alan moore, until phillip k dick picked him up and dumped him in a foster home. he ran away and went to live with paul schrader who introduced him to his partenal grandfather dostoevsky although he preferred his great-uncle nabokov,nabokov spat at him. he took several stays at hotels some clean most of them dirty and met iceberg slim, gil-scot heron, richard pyror and ralph ellison, they taught him harshly but they taught him well. he finally knew who he was. a student, a slow learner and a hopeless romantic. after hotels he went sleep next to graves, there lies philip roth, cormac mcarthy, umberto eco and other rotting corpses he'll never stop trying to impress, he still visits pynchon, coetzee and ishiguro at a deserted nursing home so he can get used to it because that's where he hopes to end up and one night he'll be an old man whose visited by another student who reminds him of what he once was and he'll beg him to leave him alone.