"By the book" is always said in this reverential way when you read Iceberg Slim.
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And then he gives him the pointers on how to pimp by the book. He begins by laying out the entire history of pimping in the Americas. And the guy doesn't just give him the advice. It is such a clearly-defined tradition, the way he tells it, that at one point, he visits an older pimp for advice. In it, Iceberg Slim explains the rules of being a successful pimp. Well, it turns out that there's a classic American primer about the laws of pimps and pimping written in 1968, Iceberg Slim's Pimp: The Story of My Life. If there's a system, if there are rules, if it's a business, it doesn't even seem like crime. Of course we want to believe that it's all so orderly, rather than the thing that we fear about crime, which is that it's random and can strike us at any time, that it's senseless. This is one of the most romantic ideas that we have about crime, that there could be a system, that there could be ancient, strict rules, and that there are people out there who actually try to follow those rules, you know?Īnd at one level, of course we want to believe that.
We like to believe that there are rules of honor, that when Michael Corleone orders a mob hit, it's because some code has been violated, that if Tony Soprano chokes a guy to death in a parking lot, it is because that guy broke some rule, that he deserved it somehow. We like to believe that there are laws among thieves.
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