She: "...I read books. Watch movies. I know there's some investigative reporter thing I want to know if that's you. What it is."
He: "What it is. What it means - there's this song -"
She: "Drive By Truckers, yeah, that doesn't tell me about you..."
From This Train by James Grady, p. 100. Grady is the author of Six Days of the Condor, the source for the film Three Days of the Condork starring Robert Redford and a number of other well regarded and awarded books and stories.
Cross posted in the books thread.
DBT Goes Literary
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Re: DBT Goes Literary
DBT gets a thank you in the acknowledgements as well, along w/ Springsteen, the Stones and a number of other notables.
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Re: DBT Goes Literary
In Robert Bailey's The Professor, a character is described as coming from Pulaski, TN and a couple of pages later the author uses the phrase "and the rest as they say is history." I'm thinking DBT influence, especially since the author is from AL.
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I recently started reading "Driving With the Devil: Southern Moonshine, Detroit Wheels, and the Birth of NASCAR" by Neal Thompson and the preface includes a couple verses of "Daddy's Cup," alongside quotes from Flannery O'Connor, Harry Crews, and Faulkner.
Great book, too.
Great book, too.
Wound up bleeding on the bar floor
We don't bet on the ball no more
We don't bet on the ball no more