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Some literary trivia

#1 Post by macrae1234 » Tue Jan 29, 2008 1:04 pm

From Chapter One Reflections in a double borbon of what novel, that was made into a sucessful motion picture, is the following quote

What an extraordinary difference there was between a body full of person and a body that was empty! Now there is someone, now there is no one. This had been a Mexican with a name and an address, an employment card and perhaps a driving licence. Then something had gone out of him,
out of the envelope of flesh and cheap clothes, and had left him an empty paper bag waiting for the dustcart. And the difference, the thing that had gone out of the stinking Mexican bandit, was greater than all Mexico.
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#2 Post by NellyLunatic1980 » Tue Jan 29, 2008 1:07 pm

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"Treasure of the Sierra Madre"?
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#3 Post by silvercamaro » Tue Jan 29, 2008 1:09 pm

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I think it's the same author and same book that was referenced last time:

Ian Fleming's Goldfinger
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#4 Post by macrae1234 » Tue Jan 29, 2008 1:10 pm

Very good SC is Annie helping you again?
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#5 Post by Bob Juch » Tue Jan 29, 2008 1:18 pm

silvercamaro wrote:
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I think it's the same author and same book that was referenced last time:

Ian Fleming's Goldfinger
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He had killed the Mexican and was feeling bad about it. That's why he was drinking double bourbons.
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#6 Post by AnnieCamaro » Tue Jan 29, 2008 1:22 pm

macrae1234 wrote:Very good SC is Annie helping you again?
My mom and I read different books. I try to help her understand the hard parts, though.
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#7 Post by cindy.wellman » Tue Jan 29, 2008 1:27 pm

AnnieCamaro wrote:
macrae1234 wrote:Very good SC is Annie helping you again?
My mom and I read different books. I try to help her understand the hard parts, though.
It takes a pack to raise a parent... Thank goodness all of you are there to keep her on her toes! (literally at times...lol)
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#8 Post by etaoin22 » Tue Jan 29, 2008 5:20 pm

Amazing.
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A bit of hard-boiled California writing real or fake but with two British usages unlikely to be found in any North American pulp hack: dustcart and driving license. Except for that, maybe minor Chandler.

I might consider "The Power and the Glory", but I don't think that Greene at his most lowriding could have managed hitting the cheap detective story feel so nicely.

It sounds like Ian Fleming.

Was "Goldeneye" an actual novel title? It fits with the chapter heading.

This is my lame guess.
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