What consistently astonishes me is how few mistakes these
guys made. Writing at speed, often publishing first-draft
material, using a typewriter and with no internet access to
fact check, I'm impressed in all sorts of ways.
Al
--- In
rara-avis-l@yahoogroups.com, Michael Robison
<miker_zspider@...> wrote:
>
> Generally they don't bother me, but reading
Goodis's
> Cassidy's Girl, he talks about Cassidy going into
the
> bus station in the morning and checking the
tires,
> adjusting the carburetor, doing a tune-up, and
then
> noticing the springs are worn so he finds a set in
the
> backroom and changes them, then does the day's run.
I
> had to laugh. It's obvious that Goodis didn't have
a
> clue what changing a set of springs on a bus
would
> require.
>
> miker
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