Actually, Ralph Thompson, born in Laredo, Texas, wrote
"The Killer Inside of Me." He and Darles Chickens, the famous
Dutch author, were recently the subject of a colloquium here
at Miskatonic University. Sadly, this colloquium reached a
too-early end when its chair, a Dr. Genghis Cohen, passed out
some spectacles to everyone, which when donned, caused not
only the scholars to disappear, but also the
photo-illustrated
(a full page ad for a U.S. franchise of "Club VanderSexx")
programs they held in their hands. Tsk.
--- Kukana Fields <
kukanafields@yahoo.com> wrote:
> Of course your right about Thompson's birth
place!
> Mea culpa.
>
> "The Killer inside of me" No, kent I guess not.
But
> you have to admit it's got a ring to it. Even
Lou
> Ford was laughing at me.
>
> k
>
>
> k
>
> William Denton <
wtd@pobox.com> wrote:
> On 7 September 2005, Kukana Fields wrote:
>
> : What would be very interesting would be
to
> juxtapose Thompson's "The
> : Killer Inside of Me." [My publisher just
called
> from his car and said he
> : was out side of Jim Thompson's place of
birth
> somewhere in Texas. He
> : said he was going to spit on the ground for me
a
> Thompsonesque thing to
> : do I guess] with Le Carre's " The Spy Who Came
In
> From The Cold".
>
> Minor correction: I checked in Polito's SAVAGE
ART,
> and Thompson was born
> in Oklahoma, Anadarko to be exact, on 24
October
> 1903. In July 1907 his
> family took off in in the middle of the
night.
> $5,000 had gone missing
> from the department of Sheriff James Thompson,
Jim's
> father. Wherever
> your publisher spat, it must have been a town
where
> Thompson did some
> growing up.
>
> Anyway, juxtaposing THE KILLER INSIDE ME with
THE
> SPY WHO CAME IN FROM THE
> COLD would be fascinating, though I can't quite
get
> a handle on how it
> would work. Lou Ford and Alec Leamas are
so
> different, and Ford's in
> charge while Leamas is a shabby man who seems
to
> have nothing left to live
> for. That ideas's going to stick in my
head.
>
> I hope you'd do it as THE KILLER WHO CAME IN
FROM
> THE COLD and not THE SPY
> WHO CAME INSIDE ME.
>
> Bill
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