When she was a small girl, Amanda hid a ticking clock in an old, rotten tree trunk. It drove woodpeckers crazy. Ignoring tasty bugs all around them, they just about beat their brains out trying to get at the clock. Years later, Amanda used the woodpecker experiment as a model for understanding capitalism, Communism, Christianity, and all other systems that traffic in future rewards rather than in present realities.

Famous Quotes / Tom Robbins

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Tom Robbins: "When she was a small girl, Amanda hid a ticking clock in an old, rotten tree trunk. It drove woodpeckers crazy. Ignoring tasty bugs all around them, they just about beat their brains out trying to get at the clock. Years later, Amanda used the woodpecker experiment as a model for understanding capitalism, Communism, Christianity, and all other systems that traffic in future rewards rather than in present realities."

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About	Amanda	Around	Beat
Brains	Bugs	Capitalism	Christianity
Clock	Communism	Crazy	Drove
Experiment	Future	Girl	Ignoring
Just	Later	Model	Other
Present	Rather	Realities	Rewards
Rotten	Small	Systems	Tasty
Them	Ticking	Traffic	Tree
Trunk	Trying	Understanding	Used
Woodpecker	Woodpeckers	Years

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When she was a small girl, Amanda hid a ticking clock in an old, rotten tree trunk. It drove woodpeckers crazy. Ignoring tasty bugs all around them, they just about beat their brains out trying to get at the clock. Years later, Amanda used the woodpecker experiment as a model for understanding capitalism, Communism, Christianity, and all other systems that traffic in future rewards rather than in present realities. - Tom Robbins