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sfinciuni bagherese
Sicilian pizza.
Imbisswagen,
German for food truck.
Get him to teach you the Curly Bill Spin.
Lew is happy to show Hicks the famous gunhand maneuver named after and taught to him in person by Curly Bill Brocius, one of the Clanton gang.
Wisconsin lasagnas, with dead raccoon somewhere in the recipe,
only more garlic and oregano possibly…
“A submarine in Lake Michigan. Come on, kid.”
“Bowling alley on a submarine, Drover?”
“He ever say anything to you about a submarine?”
Said it could be our cruise to salvation.”
Garrison Keillor meets Raymond Chandler.
a solid oak bung starter,
This was still back in Hicks’s lumber-assisted period,
New Nuremberg Lanes,
Under the Curse of the Dago Bowling Ball, rolling forever down the alleys of fate, doomed to less time colliding with maple than off in the gutters, at best unlikely to pick up even easy spares,
typewriter-ribbon ink
Knows
enough not to talk but not exactly what he shouldn’t be talking about.
a rogue Austro-Hungarian U-boat
All warrants will be suspended, all charges dropped, you’ll be as pure as Ivory soap.”
“Mrs. Airmont would like her daughter back with as little public attention as possible, and without the clarinet player.”
your role is limited to finding her and convincing her to come back.”
modern art on the walls where the dames though possibly nude are lopsided in ways not easy to make sense of…plus
“The latest we’ve heard of my daughter, she’s in Chicago with this Hop Wingdale person and the dance band he plays in, the Klezmopolitans,
she needs to be rescued from that milieu.”
Hicks and Daphne have a quick look at each other.
“Just a lift for a lady on the run, quick trip, no romance. Sorry.”
and here’s the rez by the way, you could just drop me off if you wouldn’t mind.”
a secret Indian reservation,
“You know you saved her life, bringing her up to the rez when you did.”
“Any idea what that is?”
“Yeah, well, it’s ticking, I can tell you that.”
“Traditionally,” Edgeworth can’t help pointing out, “time bombs get set to some exact hour, right now it’s about a quarter to, gives you enough time if you care to to go deep-six this down in the Lake, which you recall is only a block or two out the door and to your right.”
“Vesti la giubba,”
Put on the costume…..of a clown
chloral hydrate
panatela,
First I get railroaded back to New York, next thing somebody slips me a mickey, and I wake up on this tub.
Fiume,
it’s the Milwaukee of the Adriatic.”
“Soupe de canard,
all the tool kit of gemstone redistribution,
Felíz como lombriz,
Happy as an earthworm.
from time to time she’s obliged to put in actual working time as the cut-rate adventuress she pretends to be in her magazine articles,
pero qué carajo
What the fuck…or what the hell?
Out with a jarful of cocaine crystals,
a routine known around Chicago as “hitching up the reindeer.”
“Another ‘tale of two cities,’ Vienna solemn and psychoanalytic, while just down the river in Budapest carouses a psychical Mardi Gras in every shade of the supernatural no matter how lurid.
the Walther PPK.
apport
Paranormal…appear as if magically.
asport
Disappear or go away. Paranormal.
