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Ursprungligen postat av
GreffueAnthonius
Raymond Chandler uttryckte det väl i "The Big Sleep"
Kom att tänka på Dashiell Hammett och inledningen tilll Red Harvest.
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I first heard Personville called Poisonville by a red-haired mucker named Hickey Dewey in the Big Ship in Butte. He also called his shirt a shoit. I didn't think anything of what he had done to the city's name. Later I heard men who could manage their r's give it the same pronunciation. I still didn't see anything in it but the meaningless sort of humor that used to make richardsnary the thieves' word for dictionary. A few years later I went to Personville and learned better.
Apropå sunkiga städer och deckare.