posted August 18, 2007 04:34 PM         

Finally an absolution, it would give us all some sort of closure, proof that she really did live, that she wasn't just a name on the side of a book but that she, Mary Alice, was real like you and me !!

However, it wasn't long after, that i pulled my 'Gooberz' out from the shelf next to my bed and started to read the first few pages, as i often do. And this is the part that changed my mind:

"for those curious reviewers and readers who will inevitably question whether or not this work is autobiographical the answer is: partly yes, partly no.
The events themselves did actually occur and are real as the paper of the page you now hold in your hands but....to whom did they occur?
it shouldn't matter about whom the truth is written as long as what is written is truth
so never mind who!
this book may- or may not- have been written about me but it very well may have been written about you "

Gooberz is Linda's biography !!

I know it doesn't give dates or names but that is why it's the best autobiography, it's looking at Linda's life from the inside out, unlike all those boring autobiographies that are filled with dates and names and facts and dates... oh sorry did i repeat myself there? I was getting a little bored!

She gave us the bravest autobiography ever, she gave us her heart in those pages and that is why i can open up to one of the cantos and have tears in my eyes within seconds, no one else's biography has ever done that to me. She lived her life with imagination and that's how she wanted her readers to see her life:

"it is properly classified by its author as fiction because the dictionary defines fiction as..... an invention of the imagination...of course isn't Life? isn't Love? isn't Death? isn't everything on Earth, in reality an invention of the imagination?"

So please, to all you goobers, if you love Linda as much as me, please allow her to be remembered as she wanted to. Through her imagination.

Randall i do know that you have changed your mind about writing the biography. I just wanted to reinforce you on your decision and also just give some insight to those still wanting you to do it.

The day someone writes a biography about Linda's life is the day i will cry my heart out, because once again she has been misunderstood and all her work to make us belive in magic will be for nothing.

"and that simple, unguessed mystery of magic is what this book is really all about, the simple secret of all magic and wonder each of you once knew yourselves when you were gods and goddesses possessing powers you have too long forgotten."