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Page 141
... barber . This episode , like every other in the second half of the book with the single exception of the brief encounter with Pitch in chapter 24 , dramatizes the meeting of one confidence man with another , though , as we have seen ...
... barber . This episode , like every other in the second half of the book with the single exception of the brief encounter with Pitch in chapter 24 , dramatizes the meeting of one confidence man with another , though , as we have seen ...
Page 142
... barber ; the barber plans to make a customer of Jones , and this term identified any thief's victim ; and this " barberised " drama has a punning reference both to the slang verb to barber , or for one thief to cheat another , and the ...
... barber ; the barber plans to make a customer of Jones , and this term identified any thief's victim ; and this " barberised " drama has a punning reference both to the slang verb to barber , or for one thief to cheat another , and the ...
Page 143
... barber's shop . From the very beginning , their dialogue is a tissue of misunderstandings and double meaning , the wit of which largely derives from a punning with underworld jargon . The cosmopolitan asks the barber if he is competent ...
... barber's shop . From the very beginning , their dialogue is a tissue of misunderstandings and double meaning , the wit of which largely derives from a punning with underworld jargon . The cosmopolitan asks the barber if he is competent ...
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