GOOOOOOOD one, Bill!
miker
Bill Crider wrote:
> Richard, are you sure B. Traven wasn't writing about
being a
> writer?
in response to:
> "What you get is advances and advances. Just enough
to get
> drunk and get a dame under your legs. Sometimes
there is
> just a bit left to buy a shirt, a pair of pants, or
new
> clogs. You never get enough to buy you a complete
outfit.
> You see, if you look like a respectable citizen, you
might
> get some ideas into your head
> and walk off and become alive again. Nothing doing.
Get
> trick now? As long as you haven't got money, and as
long as
> you are in rags, you cannot get away here. You stay
dead."
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