NEWS: Black Pearls, Zorro, And Lobster Fucking

and that's a goddamn shame, i say

It sounds like Brando was critiquing his own writing as he was writing it.
"we're dealing with a hero, here."

I'm going to yell "Tally ho!" the next time I come. It's on my list of "Things to do before you turn 30".

"Oh, Lord," he cried out. "I'm a-comin'!"

When I read that I just burst out laughing. I had this flash of Sanford and Son with Red Foxx , "It's the big one, I'm a-coming Elizabeth"

I love these awards. I'd just like everyone to stop and think about this for a moment. Lobster sex, tally ho, I'm a-coming, at some point all of these writers had to hand their story to a friend, editor or publisher, and not one of them said, "Are you sure you don't want to change this?"

Tally ho dear reader, tally ho.

I am reading Shalimar the Clown right now. The context makes the passage much better. It is a good book so far, so don't be too eager to dismiss the whole book based off of one line of dialogue.

My guess is that the big names on the list don't have editors who would too strenously ask them to lose or change anything at this point.

As for the others: I dunno.

I'm not, per se, but that line in particular was definitely discouraging. Either way, I have enough of his stuff to get through that I'm not really worried about it.

If I paid for the book then I know I was ripped off.

And people got paid for writing those?