I don't know what this is

[james_davis_nicoll]

But I know what it isn't. It's no part of Kindred.

Comments

[nelc.livejournal.com]

An out-take from Guys and Dolls?

[nelc.livejournal.com]

[Listens further] A Chicago Hood in King Arthur's Court?

[james-nicoll.livejournal.com]

It kind of reminds me of something by that guy whose name I have forgotten.

[james-nicoll.livejournal.com]

Damon Runyon. Huh, who wrote the piece that got turned into Guys and Dolls

[ellarien]

Garrison Keillor? To me it sounds a lot like one of the dramatic/musical bits from _A Prairie Home Companion_

... or maybe I'm just losing my ear for American voices.

[beamjockey.livejournal.com]

Robert Bloch's "A Good Knight's Work," obviously a Damon Runyon pastiche, from 1941.

[beamjockey.livejournal.com]

(Do I get a prize?)

My method was to listen to a sample of dialogue a few minutes in, choose a relatively high-entropy phrase that sounded like it might have been in the original story, and google. This turned up a couple of pirated copies of the text, without even having to go to Google Books.

[dbdatvic.livejournal.com]

The Singularity rewards well-chosen hashing schemata!

--Dave, UNICODE would probably be going a bit too far though