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12/18/2003: "News From The Front"

Music: Solas
Mood: Feeling like Jules after sampling a tasty burger in "Pulp Fiction"

From The Lance, the newspaper of record at North Scott High School:

AUTHOR VISITS CREATIVE WRITING CLASS

By Lindsey Drenter
Reporter

On Nov. 4, Michael Romkey visited Mr. Hennigan’s Creative Writing classes and gave a presentation on his career and his novels, which are about vampires.

Romkey lives in Bettendorf with his wife, Carol, and his three sons. Romkey has written nine books, his most recent entitled, “The Vampire’s Violin.”

The author said that the reason he chose to write about vampires is because “there is a whole group of people who just love to read vampire fiction.”

Romkey says, “Given the belief that everyone has the capacity to learn and improve, it would follow that someone who lived forever would become wiser with time.”

All of his books but the first are about vampires.

“The Vampire’s Violin” tells the story of a vampire with passions for only blood and music. He longs for the music of an enchanted violin he lost years ago, and will do anything to find and play the instrument.”

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To quote Jules quoting Ezekiel 25:17 (though it isn't really 25:17), which I have been wandering around muttering today, in a not especially sunny frame of mind:

"The path of the righteous man is beset on all sides with the iniquities of the selfish and the tyranny of evil men. Blessed is he who in the name of charity and good will shepherds the weak through the valley of darkness, for he is truly his brother's keeper and the finder of lost children. And I will strike down upon those with great vengeance and with furious anger those who attempt to poison and destroy my brothers. And you will know that my name is the Lord when I lay my vengeance upon thee."

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"Pulp Fiction" trivia -- And now, trivia fans, the real Ezekial 25:17:

"And I will execute great vengeance upon them with furious rebukes; and they shall know that I am the Lord, when I shall lay my vengeance upon them."