March 4, 2010

dashiell hammett

Filed under:, , , , , , , — Chris @ 1:34 pm

Last month I made this post. (Shorter version: alcohol consumption as a mechanism for social trust-building). I realized that Dashiell Hammett already covered this ground more succinctly 80 years ago in The Maltese Falcon:

Kasper Gutman: I distrust a man who says when. If he's got to be careful not to drink too much, it's because he's not to be trusted when he does.

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