Re: RARA-AVIS: Ross Macdonald birthday

From: tzingus_10968 ( tzingus_10968@yahoo.com)
Date: 14 Dec 2004


Not part of Macdonald quote but the other parts also sometimes attributed to Tallulah Bankhead are:

Never play cards with a man called Doc Never eat at a place called Mom's

--- In rara-avis-l@yahoogroups.com, "Jacques Debierue"
<matrxtech@y...> wrote:
>
> --- In rara-avis-l@yahoogroups.com, DJ-Anonyme@w... wrote:
> <<Lew Archer credits it to a wise man from Chicago, implying,
> but not naming, Nelson Algren. The line, part of a longer set of
> warnings, is in Algren's Walk on the Wild Side.>>
>
> Ah, Nelson Algren, a fine writer and humanitarian (he reportedly
> actively helped Simone de Beauvoir achieve her first orgasm).
> Maybe his line has to do with Simone... though the story in
> _Walk_ disguises it very well.
>
> Best,
>
> MrT

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