Re: RARA-AVIS: Dialogue Question

From: James Reasoner ( james53@flash.net)
Date: 18 Sep 2002


----- Original Message ----- From: "Jim Beaver" < jumblejim@prodigy.net> To: < rara-avis@icomm.ca> Sent: Wednesday, September 18, 2002 1:11 AM Subject: Re: RARA-AVIS: Dialogue Question

> > A friend of mine is trying to come up with the author and the title of
the
> > book where
> > the following line of dialogue can be found:
> >
> > "Shut up," he explained.
> >
> > He says it's from a hard-boiled detective novel, and I have to admit it
> > sounds familiar to me, but I can't place it, either. Anybody have any
> idea?
>
> "'Are you lost daddy' I arsked tenderly. 'Shut up' he explained."
>
> Ring Lardner 1885-1933, The Young Immigrunts, 1920, chapter 10.
>
> Jim Beaver

Thanks, Jim. Lardner can be pretty hard-boiled at times. Not so sure about the detective part of the description, though. I'll pass along the info.

James

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