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Welcome back to the conversation you started.

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Okay it looks like I "liked" myself but I was just trying to find out who the hell likes me.

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Glad to have you back Greil! Looking forward to reading you here for a good long while.

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I've cheerfully paid and say: Far out, it really is good to have you back. Looking forward to all of the welcome engagement with your writing with responses from affinity to periodic infuriation.

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I am so sorry to read what you've been going through, and so happy to have found you will be writing here.

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Enjoyed your books and looking forward to reading you frequently on Substack.

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A wonderful opener.

'Writers write.' : how simple, and lovely, and perfect.

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Welcome back to writing, Greil Marcus. Welcome home.

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Welcome to Substack.

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Great to read this Greil! I’m so glad you’re writing again. I just subscribed. I hope everyone who comes here will sign up for a paid subscription.

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You were living in the Bay Area when you sold your first review, and Rolling Stone was published in San Francisco. Did it seem like a hometown paper to you?

Do you suppose the phrase "quick as thought" echo from the Stan Rogers song "Harris and the Mare" as well?

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So happy to see you here, Greil.

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Glad you are out of the hospital -- I trust that you will be able to walk that hill again. I'm also glad that you wrote those sentences that you quote above -- they meant a lot to me in my teens and twenties, and they continue to keep me company. Thank you.

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You were made for this medium. Congrats!

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Fastest six bucks I ever spent! So glad you are back behind the keys and hopefully on the mend.

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