PB wrote:
"It is always risky to buy an unauthenticated manuscript. The
risks increase when the work was willingly withdrawn by the
author. My guess? Any Grimhaven ms circulating now might at
best be 50% Willeford. Possibly far less than that. MS, like
gossip, tend to take a little from every handler. To buy an
"authentic" Xerox copy? Wow! There's provenance for
ye!"
Well, I'll grant you I paid too much for my xerox copy, but
it certainly reads like Willeford (with numerous bits
variations of which showed up in later books), and his voice
is offbeat enough I don't see it being particularly easy to
imitate.
Mark
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