NP but tangential

[Joe Allonby]

Not surprising that he smiled when he said that. I did some work in
his house on a couple of occasions. Real down-to-earth guy. He had a
charicature of himself that someone had given him hanging in his
study. The drawing depicted him in a trench coat and holding a
ridiculously over-sized revolver with the huge bore pointed at the
viewer. The character was grinning ear to ear. I mentioned that it was
a pretty good likeness. His response: "You don't really think I'm THAT
FAT, do you?" This was followed by a deep belly-laugh. The guy did not
take himself too seriously.


On Thu, Jan 21, 2010 at 1:34 PM, Mark Kohut <markekohut at yahoo.com> wrote:
> I once met Robert Parker at a book autographing......told him that a scene in his novel where his detective chokes a guy unto death was SO good, SO
> REALISTIC I couldn't forget it.............
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> He said, smiling, i was 'sick"....
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> --- On Thu, 1/21/10, Joe Allonby <joeallonby at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> From: Joe Allonby <joeallonby at gmail.com>
>> Subject: NP but tangential
>> To: "“pynchon-l at waste.org“" <pynchon-l at waste.org>
>> Date: Thursday, January 21, 2010, 12:31 PM
>> With all this talk of detectives and
>> genre fiction, not one comment so
>> far on the passing of Robert B Parker.
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>> Not a fan of the books, but he did revitalize the genre.
>> Also a very
>> nice man on the occasions that we crossed paths.
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