On Fri, 10 Jan 1997, David Geelan wrote: : 1. To what extent to gangsters read crime fiction? (Indeed, to what : extent to they read?) I bet they used to read the pulps. (Isn't there a David Goodis book where a guy gets tangled up with a small gang (a guy, his girlfriend and two henchman, and of course he sleeps with the girlfriend) where one of the gang is always reading a pulp magazine?) And, they would have watched movies too, which were influenced by the pulps, and sometimes written by writers for the pulps. : But basically, if you read a cool saying, and liked it, wouldn't you : adopt it? I sure do. I try to pepper my conversation with hardboiled slang. It's very entertaining. Bill -- William Denton : buff@vex.net <-- Please note new address. Toronto, Canada <-- I'm not at io.org any more. http://www.vex.net/~buff/ Caveat lector. - # RARA-AVIS: To unsubscribe, say "unsubscribe rara-avis" # to majordomo@icomm.ca