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Munseys: Confucius Slay

Confucius Slay

Joe Archibald
Pulp Fiction
Man who leave shiv in citizen's brisket get hot seat chop-chop, yep.

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(By: Sam Shovel)
Joe Archibald usually seems to me like a second rate mix of Damon Runyon and Robert Leslie Bellem, but in this 15-page story from 1940 he gets the upper hand over Bellem, because he mocks the weird Orientalist racism that appears in so many of Bellem\'s stories. At least, I think Archibald is mocking it. In any case, he seems to be more sarcastic about it than Bellem is. Several of the story\'s Anglo characters are addicted to coining \"Confucius say\" aphorisms (eg \"Confucius say: \'Even in Chinee restaurants, clumsy Occidents happen\'\0\"), and there\'s even a suggestion that one of the characters was murdered because of how annoying that is. It\'s a pretty funny story.