[Ads-l] [Non-DoD Source] Re: Neil Gaiman's book shelf (UNCLASSIFIED)

[MULLINS, WILLIAM D (Bill) CIV USARMY CCDC AVMC (USA)]

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And (off-topic to this list) sitting on top of DARE and RHDAS is a copy of _The Magic of Johnny Thompson_
https://www.magicana.com/buy/publications/magic-johnny-thompson , written by Jamy Ian Swiss.

http://honestliar.com/bio.htm

Thompson was an acquaintance (he passed away earlier this year), and was an mentor to Penn & Teller, and 
consulted on their shows "Fool Us" and "Sin City Spectacular".  He was also a member of The Harmonicats in the 1950s.

Swiss is somewhat closer of a friend, an excellent magician and writer, and produced "Monday Night Magic" in NYC for 
years and years.

(I have a bad tendency to look at the bookshelves in the background of photos and see what I recognize.)

> 
> Also two volumes of DARE, a two-volume modern reprint of Farmer &
> Henley's _Slang and Its Analogues_, Wentworth & Flexner's slang dictionary,
> and other good things!
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> On Wed, Jul 10, 2019 at 04:21:35PM +0000, MULLINS, WILLIAM D (Bill) CIV
> USARMY CCDC AVMC (USA) wrote:
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> > Variety just posted an article about author Neil Gaiman's writing retreat:
> >
> > https://variety.com/2019/tv/features/neil-gaiman-american-gods-
> good-omens-writers-office-interview-1203238915/
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> > with a photo of Gaiman at his desk, and a bookshelf behind him.  I'm always
> interested in what books people have, and I was pleasantly surprised to see
> that Gaiman has a pair of books that also sit on my own shelves, and probably
> on many of yours:
> >
> > Vols 1 and 2 of the Historical Dictionary of American Slang, by ADS-L
> member Jonathan Lighter.
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