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TEXAS MAN PREGNANT!

Gives Birth to a Buddhist Monk

“It’s a Boy! It’s a Book! It’s Supermonk!”

Bangkok, Thailand – November 1, 2007 Texas author A. D. Thompson has astounded the literary world by impregnating himself by spontaneous self-symbiotic conception and publishing the resultant book DINER DHARMA with the Publishing Imprint Lulu.

Thompson absorbed stories on his travels in Asia, Africa, Native and Latin Americas. He gave them to Monk who proceeded to relate them to a cast of local characters and passers-thru the fictional town of Ataboy, Texas who- like the stories- soon took on a life of their own.

Travels with the Fish author C Y Gopinath had this to say: “Thompson should have been on a Harley Davidson riding some arrow straight road in a blue-sky desert. This book is meant to be sipped between destination-free journeys, a few sips at each halt so that its voices may grow on you and become like diner buddies. Dan Thompson's gift is brevity and his wit lies in the words he allows others to speak.” Gary Dale Bulldog Cearley, author of Lurid Tales from Bawdville (also of Lulu Press), added that DINER DHARMA was “funnier than a duck at a cock fight!”

Thompson, the proud father of all this brouhaha, as surprised as anyone about birthing a Buddhist monk in rural West Texas claimed he could not explain and insisted all his acts of creation are safe and consensual, but finally admitted he had broken “more than one pen writing this wild baby!”

Thompson added one document in his defence- DINER DHARMA- and asked that accusers read it carefully. The back cover reads: Monk saw a sign. It was that sign that brought a Buddhist monk off the roads of West Texas to the Attaboy Diner. Not only the sign but the secrets he keeps. The locals soon give him another mystery to solve: the not-so-great train robbery. From chicken round ups to rodeos our bare-backed, backwards-riding Monk is called on time and time again to tell a story. He tells about Issa the Mason who Wouldn’t Be King, about the Death of the Phoenix. He tells these stories to a crazy cast of characters including townies like Isabella, the Queen of the Proverb, and to passers-thru like Bubba the mystical trucker…Come on in and sit a spell! Pull up a booth and settle in. Let Monk tell you a story!

A. D. THOMPSON is professor of English at Thammasat University in Thailand where he is working on his next book about the Falcon of Siam. DINER DHARMA can be ordered through most local booksellers, Amazon, Borders, Barnes and Noble, or at http://www.lulu.com/content/1237146

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