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Cut that out, we don’t owe a nickel; hold it; instead, hold it against him; I am a pretty good pretzler -Winifred- Department of Justice. I even got it from the department. Sir, please stop it. Say listen the last night!
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The sidewalk was in trouble and the bears were in trouble and I broke it up. Please put me in that room. Please keep him in control. My gilt edged stuff and those dirty rats have tuned in. Please mother, don’t tear, don’t rip; that is something that shouldn’t be spoken about. Please get me up, my friends. Please, look out. The shooting is a bit wild, and that kind of shooting saved a man’s life. No payrolls. No wells. No coupons. That would be entirely out. Pardon me, I forgot I am plaintiff and not defendant.
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Parts of New York city mobster Dutch Schultz’s last words. He had been shot and was delirious from fever.
William S. Burroughs later wrote a screenplay inspired by those dying words and Robert Shea and Robert Anton Wilson included them as a plot device in The Illuminatus! Trilogy.
Fascinating stuff.
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