He took his house and he built a wall right in the middle of the house. He had an apartment on one side: clothes, furniture, food, books, a radio. He had an apartment on the other side: different clothes, different books, different furniture, different food, a t.v. set.
He’d live on this side for a while until he got tired of it. He’d put his book down, take his clothes off, walk over to this side and he’d live over here for a while until he got tired of it and then he’d flip flop to this side and live over here for a while until he got tired of it
He did this back and forth until he died.
After he died they went in to clean out the house so they could rent it out to college students. These people went back in the closet in the very back of this apartment, and they opened the door and the whole closet was filled with these books and each book was exactly the same. This man had written these books and had them all published and all stacked in the closet. He’d never sold one or given one away.
The name of the book was “Life and How to Live It”.
— Michael Stipe
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