In a message dated 11/18/02 5:42:36 PM Eastern Standard Time,
owner-rara-avis@icomm.ca writes:
<<
Richard, are you sure B. Traven wasn't writing about
being a
writer?
"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."
Bill Crider
- -- >>
Bill, that is a scream and you are right as can be. You know,
I wondered after sending that quote why I chose it over other
examples with more grisly subject matter. Somehow it
resonated with me and I think you put your finger on why I
identified with it so much.
In all the discussion on Nathaniel West, I don't recall
anyone mentioning the fact that his wife, the former Eileen
McKenney, was the basis for the Broadway play, movie and
television series "My Sister Eileen." Three days after
Nathaniel and Eileen died in the car crash the play "My
Sister Eileen" by Ruth McKenney opened on Broadway. If this
was mentioned before, I apologize for missing it.
Richard Moore
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