Mr. Crabbin

“You’re literary style

does not do your

namesake justice”

—Graham Greene

The Third Man

Then there’s Mr. Crabbin—

Ditzy representative of the

British Cultural Relations

Society and Lectures

Holly was to give a lecture—

“Techniques of the Contemporary

Novel” for the Innsbruck and

Salzburg Literary Program

Holly Martin the famous—

Western pulp fiction writer

Giving Greene the chance

To dish writers and writing

Holly’s brand of fiction—

Kitchy, full of schmaltzy

Plots in a vague, sloppy

Sentimental way like sex

Strictly amateur compared—

With Benjamin Dexter or

Henry James a stylist so

Subtle, complex, old-maidish

Calloway the Investigator—

Shook his head amazed

Sometimes, the amateur much

Better than the professional!!!