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existence almost four years by then … but I have a sneaking suspicion that the little pornographic ic book featuring Popeye and Olive Oyl is an artifact out of time。 I might clean up some of this stuff when and if I decide to do The Green Mile as a single volume 。。。 but maybe I'll leave the goofs。 After all； doesn't the great Shakespeare himself include in Julius Caesar the anachronism of a striking clock long before mechanical clocks were invented？
Doing The Green Mile as a single volume would present its own unique challenges； I have e to realize； partly because the book couldn't be published as it was issued in its installments。 Because I took Charles Dickens as my model； I asked several people how Dickens had handled the problem of refreshing his readers； recollections at the beginning of each new episode。 I had expected something like the synopses which preceded each installment of my beloved Saturday Evening Post serials； and discovered that Dickens had not been so crude； he built the synopsis into the actual story。
While I was trying to decide how to do this； my Wife began telling me （she doesn't exactly nag； but sometimes she advocates rather ruthlessly） that I had never really finished the story of Mr。 Jingles； the circus mouse。 I thought she was right； and began to see that； by making Mr。 Jingles a secret of Paul Edgebe's in his old age； I could create a fairly interesting 〃front story。〃（The result is a little bit like the form taken by the film versio
