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

McCartney, Dexter Gordon, and the entire catalog of Holg├йr 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