----- Original Message ----- From: Etienne Borgers <
freeweb@rocketmail.com> To: <
rara-avis@icomm.ca> Sent: Thursday, November 09, 2000
8:59 AM Subject: Re: RARA-AVIS: Practical tips from
hardboiled dicks (jolt)
>
> --- William Denton <
buff@pobox.com> wrote:
> > On 6 November 2000, Mark Sullivan
wrote:
> > : "Never let nobody talk you into shaking
another
> > man's jolt."
> >
> > Does that mean some kind of homosexual thing?
Ah,
> > THE DICTIONARY OF
> > AMERICAN UNDERWORLD LINGO defines "jolt" as
prison
> > sentence, so maybe it
> > means don't do someone else's jail time, which
is
> > pretty sensible advice.
>
Yes indeed - if you refer back to Algren's original it all
becomes (more or less) clear. Just before Cross-Country Kline
gives Dove the rules for life he gives him this other piece
of advice re. the jolt thing
'Do you know that half the men serving time are serving it
for somebody else? Shaking somebody else's jolt for copping
somebody else's plea, playing culprit for a lesser crime than
the one they actually done?'
(still doesn't make an enormous amount of sense but
still...)
John
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