#sorry for reading books he mentions in interviews i feel like its the most freakish thing i do but its gonna be okay

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Not to be this guy but I admit I did in fact check out a volume of donald barthelme short stories after hearing john linnell bring him up numerous times in interviews as someone he was really into when they first got started and whose writing probably had a big influence on his lyrical style which I can 100% see but anyway one of the stories in the volume I happened to be reading was bluebeard which is of course a subversion of the folktale of the same name and even though he's not the first or only writer by any means to have notably adapted / parodied it knowing linnell is (or rather was) a fan of his in particular I wonder if he was drawing particularly on that or if that was sort of what put it as an idea for a song on his radar I don't know but anyways who knows just was an interesting connection to me at least