Talk:Travis McGee
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[edit] Meyer's First Name
I saw in the edit history that someone tried to add Meyer's first name as "Ludwig." I think he/she got this idea from Pale Gray for Guilt, where Meyer obtains business cards and a letter to give him and Travis a cover to swindle Preston LaFrance. The business cards state "G. Ludweg Meyer" and the letter begins "My dear Ludweg." Since this is for a false identity, we cannot assume that "Ludweg" or "G. Ludweg" is Meyer's true first name/names. --Boone 18:43, August 29, 2005 (UTC)
- The most recent edit adds information on Meyer's name that I have never seen anywhere else. Yes, Meyer has a doctorate in economics, but nowhere that I know of does MacDonald indicate that Meyer is both his first and last name. I don't believe it's even suggested anywhere that it is specifically his last name, though that does seem the more likely to me. I won't alter the edit yet but thought it would be good to find out if there is any supporting evidence. --Wspencer11 (talk to me...) 12:18, 23 August 2006 (UTC)
- It is his last name. I don't recall the book, but McGee calls him "Professor Meyer" at one point, to make a point to a local cop. (I don't think he was bullshitting; it would've caused unnecessary trouble in the circumstances.) Also, I seem to recall Meyer refers to himself as "Dr", & McGee at least once ironically calls him "Professor" (suggesting he is, & neither gives a damn). Trekphiler 11:31, 29 December 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Source for McGee's clients
I have added the word "almost" to the note about McGee's way of obtaining clients. In Pale Gray for Guilt he tells Puss Killian that he got his last client through a close reading of newspaper articles. Wspencer11 20:18, 7 July 2006 (UTC)
[edit] McGee's wartime experience
It seems to me that McGee never actually says which war he fought in. JDM himself was in the India/Burma theater in WWII, but if we take McGee's birth year to be somewhere around 1934 (as I do) then he would obviously have to have been in Korea. When McGee does talk about his wartime experience it's obvious that it was in a tropical climate of some sort, since he mentions leeches and jungles. Does Korea have those? Wspencer11 13:36, 10 July 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Busted Flush
Although it's a common misconception, McGee didn't actually win the houseboat with a busted flush. According to chapter 3 of "The Deep Blue Good-By," he merely started the run with a busted flush and allowed the other players to see his cards, thus lulling them into thinking he was bluffing in later hands. 216.39.180.60cneron
[edit] Latest addition
There's something wrong in this new paragraph: "Unknown to most followers of McGee, in 1987 the Library of Congress's "Center for the Book" commissioned a short work by MacDonald. He responded by writing an essay entitled Reading for Survival, which is a conversation between McGee and Meyer on the importance of reading. The 26 page essay was released in limited edition of 5,000 copies, and was available for a small contribution to the Center for the Book." MacDonald died in 1986. --Wspencer11 (talk to me...) 12:25, 29 August 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Oh, Spenser...
I've read an article in a writer's magazine (which I can't find my copy of, dammit) he was orignally named Dallas, changed after JFK was assassinated. Can anybody confirm? Trekphiler 11:48, 29 December 2006 (UTC)
- Okie. But why are you telling us this in the *MacDonald* article? Hayford Peirce 18:15, 29 December 2006 (UTC)
- Pay attention. It's McGee I'm talking about: it was Dallas to begin with, not Travis. (The article was "Sherlock Holmes was a smartass" in Writer, I think.) Trekphiler 04:53, 19 August 2007 (UTC)
