I always knew the land I regularly walk was a piece of America's past, but it's not just any past – it's a tale woven with adventure, grit, and the birth of a new identity. This stretch of earth, once part of the original Oklahoma Land Run, carries within it…
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Talk Tough Like Dan Turner, Hollywood Detective! Don’t say “money,” say “cabbage” or “geetus.” “Ordinarily, I don’t work on a case unless I know there’s a stack of cabbage in it for me.” “And five G’s is important geetus in my language.”
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Talk Tough Like Dan Turner, Hollywood Detective! Don’t say “bullet,” say “lead pill.” “First one among you who tries to get away, gets a lead pill in his tripes.” And when he heard you say that Ellen Morrow was in your apartment, he came here ahead of us and fed…
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Talk Tough Like Dan Turner, Hollywood Detective! Instead of saying “cigarette,” say “gasper.” “I smoked about ten gaspers, killed nearly a whole fifth of scotch before I got lunch.” “I set fire to a gasper to cover my start of surprise.”
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Depraved by an unbridled lust for rare books, every bookseller in town had been in her library.
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Sure I’m a flirt! So what? This! I struggled against his embrace and then even though I fought against it, I found myself not struggling … I wanted him to kiss me! Wanted to feel him holding me tightly … it was wrong … horribly wrong. But I didn’t care!
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A parallel revolt against the traditional modes of expression took place in poetry under the leadership of the Symbolists, who strove for direct poetic experience unspoiled by intellectual elements. They sought to suggest rather than describe, to present the symbol rather than the state of the thing. Arthur Rimbaud (1854…
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Junkie is a semi-autobiographical novel by William S. Burroughs. First published in 1953 (Ace Books), it was Burroughs’ first published novel and has come to be considered a seminal text on the lifestyle of heroin addicts in the early 1950s. The book has also been published under the name Junky.…
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The chain of being, or the great chain of being, is a Neoplatonic metaphor for the hierarchical nature, function, and organization of the universe. The concept, created by Plotinus (205?-270), was applied to literature, science, and philosophy, and dictated a series of linked stages from God, to Angel, to Man,…
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Eric Hatheway 
Rude Boy 
Gin Finger 
Dirque du Soleil 
The Artist