Tribe wrote:
"Anyone ever read Jack Black's You Can't Win? All I know
about it is that is was influential on William S. Burroughs
and he was something of a early twentieth century
bad-ass."
Jack Black wrote a book? Is it the novelization of the
upcoming Tenacious D movie?
Bad joke aside, I have read You Can't Win. It's a turn of the
20th century memoir about the criminal underworld -- hobo
jungles, short cons, pickpockets, whores, etc. It's an
engaging read once you get used to the dime novel diction,
which can seem a bit stilted to more modern ears, well, at
least these modern ears. And it's easy to see its influence
on Burroughs, especially in the colorful character
names.
Mark
RARA-AVIS home page: http://www.miskatonic.org/rara-avis/
Yahoo! Groups Links
<*> To visit your group on the web, go to:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/rara-avis-l/
<*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email
to:
rara-avis-l-unsubscribe@yahoogroups.com
<*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to:
http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
This archive was generated by hypermail 2b29 : 05 Jan 2006 EST