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[mbella (Craig Stoker)]

>Incidentally, I've been meaning to bring this up... has anybody noticed
>how Patti Smith's signature has changed over the years? I have a signed
>copy of Witt (and I've seen other early signatures...isn't there one on
>the Horses cover? or is it RE?), and I've had her sign copies of Early
>Works, Woolgathering, and a copy of the Mapplethorpe book "Flowers" for
>which she wrote the intro.  Her 90s signature looks very different.

Yes.  I've noticed that about everyone.  Look at Burroughs too.  In fact,
look at your own signiture over the years.  Is it the same as it was 10
years ago?  It's interesting.  I think our sigs get less and less
discernable the older we get.  I have to sign my name so many times a day
(because of my job, not because I'm a superstar) that it looks like a few
squiggly lines, a dot, and a couple of dashes these days.

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The family will no longer control the western hemisphere.  it will exhist
in its pleasure but not in its tyranny.   -Patti Smith