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Some lines from Mickey Spillane



 
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Some lines from Mickey Spillane #1 (permalink) Wed Apr 16, 2008 18:54 pm   Some lines from Mickey Spillane
 

Hi

Could you please help me with the following red lines?

The writer is in a Cafeteria and the cops have come there to arrest him. But they come and let him finish his food. (They are being decent about it.)

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On somebody else the fuzz would have stepped up and made the pinch without waiting. For this one time I had to be an exception because of what happened a year ago, and for that they were being decent. Something like General Arnold's boot if you got enough smarts to know what I mean.


There is NO further context--I mean, no discussion of General Arnold in the rest of the novel.

Many thanks,

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Some lines from Mickey Spillane #2 (permalink) Wed Apr 16, 2008 21:56 pm   Some lines from Mickey Spillane
 

Maybe, your character was wounded in the leg a year ago?
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Some lines from Mickey Spillane #3 (permalink) Wed Apr 16, 2008 23:11 pm   Some lines from Mickey Spillane
 

Hi Tom

I'm really not sure, but that may be a reference to Benedict Arnold.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boot_Monument
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