[altura]

Rush usually credits his Stout quotes, but sometimes he doesn't.

Still, he doesn't lift his entire program from Savage or somebody ala hairplug boy.

[quidnunc]

altura wrote: Rush usually credits his Stout quotes, but sometimes he doesn't.

In this case he was passing off Stout's writing as his own thinking.

Did he really think that there would be nobody listening who would recognize his plagarism?

After all, the opening chapter in 'Gambit' is one of the most memorable passages in the whole Nero Wolfe canon.