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Woke up today, hoping the Google Doodle would honor the man..... And then I realized how fucking stupid America is. You know what? Maybe it's better no one knows about him, maybe that's the charm I find. He won't blow his book sales in Europe, but everyone here wants to watch Game of Thrones...

He's in prison--Lompoc--for bank robbery.

Ahh, now it's beginning to make sense... The one I have on hand, from The Bell Tolls for No One, it's true provenance is actually "Notes of a Dirty Old Man," L.A. Free Press, April 20, 1973. In it he writes: You might say that if you bet $2 nine times with a fifteen percent take, that you are...

A shady roomate. He stole a lot more, it's just incidental that it was within everything i owned.

I saw this in another poem long ago and now again, in The Bell Tolls for No One. I don't gamble or go to the horses, and googling it didn't give me a precise definition. Does anyone know what this means exactly, in the world of gambling?

So hopefully that makes someone feel better. Though, to be fair, I do like buying his stuff again. It helps Linda. I think.

You didn't tell us the title of the book, so I'm going to take a guess: Love Is a Dog from Hell.