I also picked up one of Block's Bernie Rhodenbarr books, _The
Burglar
Who Mentioned Spinoza_, which I mention because of its
opening
paragraph:
"Around five-thirty I put down the book I'd been reading and
started
shooing customers out of the store. The book was by Robert B.
Parker,
and its hero was a private detective named Spenser who
compensated for
his lack of a first name by being terribly physical. Every
couple of
chapters would find him jogging around Boston or lifting
weights or
finding some other way to court a heart attack or a hernia. I
was
getting exhausted just reading about him."
I thought this was pretty funny.
Bill
--
William Denton | Toronto, Canada | http://www.vex.net/~buff/ | Caveat lector.
"Let's keep the party polite."
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