Bubblegum, page 107
* In the (dubious) spirit, I suppose, of Triple-J’s “Living Isn’t Functioning,” I feel obliged to note (in-foot) that although the Panacea I was given by Burroughs was identically formulated to that now available to consumers worldwide, the tiny folded info pamphlets that one finds inside today’s market-ready bottles of Panacea employ a vocabulary slightly different from that employed by those pamphlets I found inside my sample packs, which were (i.e. my pamphlets and packs were) manufactured before Graham&Swords decided to market Panacea as a dietary supplement. The sample pack pamphlet’s “active ingredients,” for example, is, in the bottle pamphlet, “proactive ingredients”; the “recommended dosage” is “recommended intake”; “other drugs” just “drugs.”
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
Bubblegum would have been a lesser book—it may never have even become a book—if the following people hadn’t helped me:
Rob Bloom
Camille Bordas
Jacqueline Ko
Christian TeBordo
Andrew Wylie
I am greatly indebted to each of them.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Adam Levin is the author of The Instructions and Hot Pink. He has been a New York Public Library Young Lions Fiction Award winner, a recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts fellowship, and a National Jewish Book Award finalist. A longtime Chicagoan, Levin currently lives in Gainesville, Florida.
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