In Nelson Algrens 1956 novel A Walk On The Wild Side (from which - TopicsExpress



          

In Nelson Algrens 1956 novel A Walk On The Wild Side (from which the very literary Lou Reed got the title and idea for a rather good song), Algren says: Never play cards with a man called Doc. Never eat at a place called Moms. Never sleep with a woman whose troubles are worse than your own. (This is what I employ when an anti-seduction line is needed.) Algren said that his novel asks why lost people sometimes develop into greater human beings than those who have never been lost in their whole lives. But what of those who, like Charles Bukowski, say or Jean Rhys, stay lost until they die? Jean Rhys said: Let Them Call It Jazz.
Posted on: Sun, 21 Sep 2014 20:50:30 +0000

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