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Carl Sandburg (1878–1967). Smoke and Steel. 1922.

VI. Accomplished Facts

8. Jack London and O. Henry

BOTH were jailbirds; no speechmakers at all; speaking best with one foot on a brass rail; a beer glass in the left hand and the right hand employed for gestures.

And both were lights snuffed out … no warning … no lingering:

Who knew the hearts of these boozefighters?