blurbs table

blurbs is defined as follows:

create table blurbs
(au_id  id not null
    references authors(au_id),
copy text null)

Table B-11 lists the contents of blurbs:

**Table B-11: blurbs table**
au_id	copy
486-29-1786	If Chastity Locksley didn’t exist, this troubled world would have created her! Not only did she master the mystic secrets of inner strength to conquer adversity when she encountered it in life, but also, after “reinventing herself,” as she says, by writing “Emotional Security: A New Algorithm” following the devastating loss of her cat, Old Algorithm, she founded Publish or Perish, the page-by-page, day-by-day, write-yourself-to-wellness encounter workshops franchise empire, the better to share her inspiring discoveries with us all. Her “Net Etiquette,” a brilliant social treatise in its own right and a fabulous pun, is the only civilized alternative to the gross etiquette often practiced on the public networks.
648-92-1872	A chef’s chef and a raconteur’s raconteur, Reginald Blotchet-Halls calls London his second home. “Th’ palace kitchen’s me first ‘ome, act’lly!” Blotchet-Halls’ astounding ability to delight our palates with palace delights is matched only by his equal skill in satisfying our perpetual hunger for delicious back-stairs gossip by serving up tidbits and entrees literally fit for a king!
998-72-3567	Albert Ringer was born in a trunk to circus parents, but another kind of circus trunk played a more important role in his life years later. He grew up as an itinerant wrestler and roustabout in the renowned Ringer Brothers and Betty and Bernie’s Circus. Once known in the literary world only as Anne Ringer’s wrestling brother, he became a writer while recuperating from a near-fatal injury received during a charity benefit bout with a gorilla. “Slingshotting” himself from the ring ropes, Albert flew over the gorilla’s head and would have landed head first on the concrete. He was saved from certain death by Nana, an elephant he had befriended as a child, who caught him in her trunk. Nana held him so tightly that three ribs cracked and he turned blue from lack of oxygen. “I was delirious. I had an out-of-body experience! My whole life passed before me eyes. I promised myself ‘If I get through this, I’ll use my remaining time to share what I learned out there.’ I owe it all to Nana!”
899-46-2035	Anne Ringer ran away from the circus as a child. A university creative writing professor and her family took Anne in and raised her as one of their own. In this warm and television-less setting she learned to appreciate the great classics of literature. The stream of aspiring and accomplished writers that flowed constantly through the house confirmed her repudiation of the circus family she’d been born into: “Barbarians!” The steadily growing recognition of her literary work was, to her, vindication. When her brother’s brush with death brought them together after many years, she took advantage of life’s crazy chance thing and broke the wall of anger that she had constructed to separate them. Together they wrote, “Is Anger the Enemy?” an even greater blockbuster than her other collaborative work, with Michel DeFrance, “The Gourmet Microwave.”
672-71-3249	They asked me to write about myself and my book, so here goes: I started a restaurant called “de Gustibus” with two of my friends. We named it that because you really can’t discuss taste. We’re very popular with young business types because we’re young business types ourselves. Whenever we tried to go out to eat in a group we always got into these long tiresome negotiations: “I just ate Italian,” or “I ate Greek yesterday,” or “I NEVER eat anything that’s not organic!” Inefficient. Not what business needs today. So, it came to us that we needed a restaurant we could all go to every day and not eat the same thing twice in a row maybe for a year! We thought, “Hey, why make people choose one kind of restaurant over another, when what they really want is a different kind of food?” At de Gustibus you can eat Italian, Chinese, Japanese, Greek, Russian, Tasmanian, Iranian, and on and on all at the same time. You never have to choose. You can even mix and match! We just pooled our recipes, opened the doors, and never looked back. We’re a big hit, what can I say? My recipes in “Sushi, Anyone?” are used at de Gustibus. They satisfy crowds for us every day. They will work for you, too. Period!
409-56-7008	Bennet was the classic too-busy executive. After discovering computer databases, he now has the time to run several successful businesses and sit on three major corporate boards. Bennet also donates time to community service organizations. Miraculously, he also finds time to write and market executive-oriented, in-depth computer hardware and software reviews. “I’m hyperkinetic, so being dynamic and fast-moving is a piece of cake. But being organized isn’t easy for me or for anyone I know. There’s just one word for that: ‘databases!’ Databases can cure you or kill you. If you get the right one, you can be like me. If you get the wrong one, watch out. Read my book!”