Another of the many feelings I am having about this book!:
When Archie is in jail and meets his chatty cellmate Max Christy, I find this exchange very striking indeed:
He was regarding me with a new expression, not particularly matey. "So you're Nero Wolfe's little Archie."
"I was." I gestured. "Read the paper. Apparently I am now my own little Archie."
YOU GUYS. "I was." Archie Goodwin, touchy owner of Masculinity, doesn't get his back up over being called Nero Wolfe's Little Archie, the way he reliably has before over being called Nero Wolfe's punk or boy or little anything.
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"I was."
Date: 2015-09-07 03:55 pm (UTC)When Archie is in jail and meets his chatty cellmate Max Christy, I find this exchange very striking indeed:
YOU GUYS. "I was." Archie Goodwin, touchy owner of Masculinity, doesn't get his back up over being called Nero Wolfe's Little Archie, the way he reliably has before over being called Nero Wolfe's punk or boy or little anything.
Instead he just owns it, and says, "I was."
*sniff*