"Spider Robinson - C5 - Lady Slings the Booze" - читать интересную книгу автора (Robinson Spider)

McCartney, Dexter Gordon, and the entire catalog of Holgér Petersen's Stony Plain Records and
Tapes, which music kept me sane and productive during this book's creation;
-Richard "Lord" Buckley, for having stomped upon this sweet, swingin' sphere; r -
-and of course, my wife Jeanne and daughter Tern, sine qua ni/ill.

This book would not have been possible (or near as much fun) without all these people, and
their ilk.

A harlot with sincerity and a square egg:
they both do not exist.

-Japanese proverb



Writing is not necessarily something to be ashamed of. But do it in private, and wash your hands
afterward.

-WOODROW W. SMITH


1. The Dick...

Th1s game's over, man! You gotta move your Boss or Rocky's gonna lay a subpoena on him: then his
Torpedo is gonna smoke your Old Lady, and all your Heavles'll be doin time-except for maybe your
Mouthpiece, but Rocky's Sheriff got him put in the corner-you got nothin' left but Punks and
Junkies: you're through, Jimmy.

-ANGEL MARTIN to Jim Rockford,
commenting on a chess game, In the Rockford Flies episode 'Chicken Little Is a Little Chicken.' by
Stephen J. Cannell


IT was noon before they finished scraping Uncle Louie off the dining room table.
So I missed the big Math final at ten, and with all the fuss afterward, everybody feeling
sort of sony for me-and a little grossed Out by what had happened to my uncle-Mr. Cathcart never
got around to making me make it up, so I ended up passing Math that semester. And it was that very
night, after I thought over everything I'd seen and heard of the cops who responded that morning,
that I made the decision to become a private detective instead of a cop when I grew up. I'd been
trying to make up my mind since I was six. So it was a memorable day. Add all the pluses and
minuses and take an average, you'd have to say it was a pretty good day all in all. Kind of rough
on Uncle Louie, of course. And it ruined that table. But it turned me away from a life of crime.
Well, serious crime.


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Anyway, the point I started out to make is: can you imagine what I felt like when I came
downstairs and saw Uncle Louie like that? Tremendously scared and nauseous and excited all at the