Talk:Too Many Women - Revision history

Faterson at 11:38, 29 September 2007

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195.93.21.41: /* Archie's background, chapter 27, page 133 */

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Archie's background, chapter 27, page 133

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Archie's background, chapter 27, page 133

195.93.21.41: Archie's background, chapter 27, page 133

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Archie's background, chapter 27, page 133

195.93.21.41: Chapter 26, page 121

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Chapter 26, page 121

195.93.21.41: Chapter 23, pages 99-100

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Chapter 23, pages 99-100

195.93.21.41: Chapter 22, page 94

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Chapter 22, page 94

195.93.21.41: Chapter 19, page 80

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Chapter 19, page 80

195.93.21.41: Chapter 16, page 68

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Chapter 16, page 68

195.93.21.41: Chapter 13, page 50

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Chapter 13, page 50

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	== Chapter 1, page 1 (Bantam: 1967) ==		== Chapter 1, page 1 (Bantam: 1967) ==

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−	"You certainly don’t understand me!" she declared, and laughed some more. "Your father’s name is James Arner Goodwin, and you were born in Canton, Ohio, in nineteen-fourteen. Your mother’s maiden name was Leslie. You have two brothers and two sisters. No, no gypsy. I’m a very cautious woman, Archie, cautious and dependable." She stood up, abruptly, and I must admit not clumsily.	+	"You certainly don’t understand me!" she [Cecily Pine] declared, and laughed some more. "Your father’s name is James Arner Goodwin, and you were born in Canton, Ohio, in nineteen-fourteen. Your mother’s maiden name was Leslie. You have two brothers and two sisters. No, no gypsy. I’m a very cautious woman, Archie, cautious and dependable." She stood up, abruptly, and I must admit not clumsily.

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−	~~‘You~~ certainly don’t understand me!’ she declared, and laughed some more. ~~‘Your~~ father’s name is James Arner Goodwin, and you were born in Canton, Ohio, in nineteen-fourteen. Your mother’s maiden name was Leslie. You have two brothers and two sisters. No, no gypsy. I’m a very cautious woman, Archie, cautious and dependable.’ She stood up, abruptly, and I must admit not clumsily. ~~‘The reason I want to see a list is to make sure you’re including everything. Let’s sit on the couch and talk about it.’~~	+	"You certainly don’t understand me!" she declared, and laughed some more. "Your father’s name is James Arner Goodwin, and you were born in Canton, Ohio, in nineteen-fourteen. Your mother’s maiden name was Leslie. You have two brothers and two sisters. No, no gypsy. I’m a very cautious woman, Archie, cautious and dependable." She stood up, abruptly, and I must admit not clumsily.

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	I didn’t resent it because I knew he wasn’t being critical. He regards going from one place to another place in New York City as being one of the most hazardous feats a man can undertake, and he was worried about me.		I didn’t resent it because I knew he wasn’t being critical. He regards going from one place to another place in New York City as being one of the most hazardous feats a man can undertake, and he was worried about me.
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		+	== Archie's background, chapter 27, page 133 ==
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		+	‘You certainly don’t understand me!’ she declared, and laughed some more. ‘Your father’s name is James Arner Goodwin, and you were born in Canton, Ohio, in nineteen-fourteen. Your mother’s maiden name was Leslie. You have two brothers and two sisters. No, no gypsy. I’m a very cautious woman, Archie, cautious and dependable.’ She stood up, abruptly, and I must admit not clumsily. ‘The reason I want to see a list is to make sure you’re including everything. Let’s sit on the couch and talk about it.’

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	That took the edge off him instantly. He leaned back, nodded to himself, made a circle with his lips, and exhaled with a sort of hiss that was the closest he ever got to a whistle.		That took the edge off him instantly. He leaned back, nodded to himself, made a circle with his lips, and exhaled with a sort of hiss that was the closest he ever got to a whistle.
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		+	== Chapter 26, page 121 ==
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		+	I didn’t resent it because I knew he wasn’t being critical. He regards going from one place to another place in New York City as being one of the most hazardous feats a man can undertake, and he was worried about me.

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	"I admit I lied to him. I told him that you’re just a front here and the real brains of this business is a skinny old woman with asthma that we keep locked in the basement."		"I admit I lied to him. I told him that you’re just a front here and the real brains of this business is a skinny old woman with asthma that we keep locked in the basement."
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		+	== Chapter 23, pages 99-100 ==
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		+	It is a simple thing to make a swivel-chair swivel a half-turn and to pick up a phone, but sometimes the simple things are the hardest. I did not perform that manoeuvre. Instead, I wet my upper lip with my tongue, then my lower lip, and then got the tip of the tongue between my teeth and experimented to see how hard I had to bite to produce pain. [...]
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		+	"Archie." Wolfe was glaring. "Has that girl enravished you? Has she cajoled you into frenzy?"
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		+	"Yes, sir."
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		+	That took the edge off him instantly. He leaned back, nodded to himself, made a circle with his lips, and exhaled with a sort of hiss that was the closest he ever got to a whistle.

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	Cramer exploded with a word which the printer would not approve of. "Your goddam household squabbles will keep," he said rudely.		Cramer exploded with a word which the printer would not approve of. "Your goddam household squabbles will keep," he said rudely.
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		+	== Chapter 22, page 94 ==
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		+	"I admit I lied to him. I told him that you’re just a front here and the real brains of this business is a skinny old woman with asthma that we keep locked in the basement."

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	Wolfe was reading three books at once. He had been doing that, off and on, all the years I had been with him, and it always annoyed me because it seemed ostentatious.		Wolfe was reading three books at once. He had been doing that, off and on, all the years I had been with him, and it always annoyed me because it seemed ostentatious.
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		+	== Chapter 19, page 80 ==
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		+	"Archie. If I need to tell you, I do, that I have unqualified confidence in you and am completely satisfied with your performance in this case, as I have been in all past cases and expect to be in all future ones. Of course you tell lies and so do I, even to clients when it seems advisable, but you would never lie to me nor I to you in a matter where mutual trust and respect are involved. Your lack of brilliance may be regrettable but is really a triviality, and in any event two brilliant men under one roof would be intolerable. Your senseless peccadilloes, such as your refusal to use a noiseless typewriter, are a confounded nuisance, but this idiotic accusation that you lied in that report to Mr Pine has put me in a different frame of mind about it. Keep your typewriter, but for heaven’s sake oil it."
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		+	"Good God," I protested, "I oil it every –"
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		+	Cramer exploded with a word which the printer would not approve of. "Your goddam household squabbles will keep," he said rudely.

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	"What do you think?"		"What do you think?"
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		+	== Chapter 16, page 68 ==
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		+	Wolfe was reading three books at once. He had been doing that, off and on, all the years I had been with him, and it always annoyed me because it seemed ostentatious.

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	Then I realised at the edge of my mind that it wasn’t him. The taxi drivers were leaning against the fender of the cab I had paid for, enjoying free show. I resented that, and, knowing I was in no position to resent anything, shoved it out of the way. The husband apparently had oversized lungs. With no gong to announce intermissions I was beginning to wish I had learned to breathe through my ears, but he didn’t even have his mouth open. He just kept coming.		Then I realised at the edge of my mind that it wasn’t him. The taxi drivers were leaning against the fender of the cab I had paid for, enjoying free show. I resented that, and, knowing I was in no position to resent anything, shoved it out of the way. The husband apparently had oversized lungs. With no gong to announce intermissions I was beginning to wish I had learned to breathe through my ears, but he didn’t even have his mouth open. He just kept coming.
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		+	== Chapter 13, page 50 ==
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		+	And three hours later, at half-past one in the morning, we were still there and I was still reporting. I have never known him to be more thorough, wanting every detail and every little word. My face felt stiff as a board, and I hurt further down, especially my left side, but I wasn’t going to give him the satisfaction and pleasure of hearing me groan again, and I didn’t. After I had given him everything he kept coming back for more, and when it was no longer possible to continue that without making it perfectly plain that he was merely trying to see how long it would take me to collapse on the floor there in front of him, he asked:
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		+	"What do you think?"