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china bot posted:greetings fellow codexican you're extremely cute china bot, good work
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Gutter Phoenix posted:
I'm going to be real with you dude, I bought this book and read it. Do you know what book it reminded me of? Panzram: A Journal of Murder, which is largely Panzram's own letters along with some research corroborating the content. Panzram's deeds were considerably more newsworthy, so it admittedly it would be easier to verify his claims (i.e. killing a shitload of people). That said, they lived in almost exactly the same time period, committing (for the most part) almost exactly the same kind of crimes. And do you know what struck me? That Panzram, for all his strange grammar and roiling tone, seems to know what he is talking about and You Can't Win reads like a fairy tale. To be honest I'm kind of curious if the content of You Can't Win was ever validated or verified in any way, because it seems so heavily romanticized. In fact, it sort of reminded me of Gang Leader for a Day, which is a book that I am 100% certain is completely full of poo poo.
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By the way, read Pazram: A Journal of Murder. It's a great book about a man who clearly committed a poo poo-ton of appalling crimes, and his anger leaks out of every page, however he was completely devoted to his strange ethics, and the only reason he ever wrote down his story is that a guard who was nice to him asked him to. From then on he would make little beaded purses and stuff to send to the guard so he could sell them for money or give them to his girlfriend and stuff. It's just a whacko story but it's provably accurate. Also Panzram could spin a phrase.quote:I am sorry for only two things. These two things are I am sorry that I have mistreated some few animals in my life-time and I am sorry that I am unable to murder the whole damed human race. welp!
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Jim Barris posted:What about You Can't Win struck you as romanticized? It's not like being a thief works out terribly well for Jack. Everything that happens has a clear arc and moral and everything. The last thing his father ever says to him is poignant. He has a lovely say with a prostitute who he then saves in a daring rescue, after she artfully outlines every aspect of how a brothel works. The man who first guides him is struck down tragically and dramatically, but when he goes to jail over ~one missed piece of evidence~, someone who had respected his noble friend (for there is a Code) steps in and yeah it just generally reads like a novel, in large part because everything is so purposeful. I am not saying it's for sure fake (like Gang Leader for a Day), and I wouldn't be surprised if he had been a burglar, but I recommend you read Panzram AJOM and then re-read You Can't Win and see the difference in how events unfold. I think he was probably just a generic thief and/or burglar but anything more than "I stole stuff and sometimes I got nicked and sometimes I didn't, p.s. prison sucks" feels ramped.
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Dec 15, 2017 21:02
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As a child, my dad would tell me it was bedtime by saying "Bedtime for Bonzo!" and as a child I had no idea wtf he was talking about or that he was referring to me as a chimpanzee that used to hang out with ronald reagan
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Dec 19, 2017 00:50
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Always scan cat books. they may be rarer than you think. I have three of the four Space Cat books, and even bargain-hunting I've never gotten one that cost me less than $50 (and those were lucky finds). The last one is like $220 anywhere  .
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Jan 1, 2018 05:00
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Aesop Poprock posted:I googled this and have no idea what you're talking about unless you're literally buying stores called Space Cat Books for a pittance 
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Jan 1, 2018 05:09
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You should know Space Cat, Flyball. Is did you get your username elsewhere? boo.
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Nice, okay, good. we're cool. 
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