On books

Larry McMurtry, Books - One of my peculiarities as a book scout was that I soon developed an uncanny ability to find books inscribed by Franklin Gilliam to various former girlfriends, all of whom seemed to have sold them the next day. . . Marcia and I debated erasing the inscriptions, but that would have meant a lot of erasing. In the end we left them in place, and one day, sure enough, Franklin wandered over to a shelf, idly picked up a book, and looked inside. No man ever went scarlet quicker. – - Sometime in the mid-seventies I...