He once described Debra Winger's voice as follows: It "sounds as though it was strained through the honeymoon sheets of Bogey and Bacall and then hosed down with plum brandy." Robbins doesn't have an imagination. As it was, I felt sure that if Alobar existed it wouldn't be in the guise of a pigeon-chested dirty old man holding up the bar in London's tourist district. I was pretty entranced by Robbins at that point in my life, and had the guy convinced me of his Alobar-ness, he might have stood a chance. Had he really been living in a Robbins novel, he would have swept the naive 22-year-old Canadian away, fucked me and left me thankful for the experience. The thing about Alobar is that although he's 1,000 years old, he still has no trouble getting laid. We somehow got on the topic of Robbins' books and he told me that he thought he was Alobar, a 1,000-year-old janitor that stars in Robbins' fifth novel, "Jitterbug Perfume." He was American, about 45 years old, with long, scraggly gray hair. I met one of them a few years ago in a London pub. They want to climb inside the books, light up a joint and join the fun. They trade his novels on chicken buses crawling through Third World countries. Die-hard Tom Robbins fans dwell in the outer reaches of the Internet, swapping recipes inspired by his books.
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