What you have to be is outrageous with a bit of what Andre Malraux, an adventurer and liar, perhaps- but not a scalawag-designated, in reviving an old French word, farfelu. But likewise you don't have to be a crackpot to be a scalawag: Two Gun Cohen, for instance, or Lady Jane Digby. And quite frankly in many instances-George Francis Train, for instance, or Louis De Rougemont-you'd probably be right. " You might call them something else: nuts, perhaps. There is an ineffable quality, an indefinable something or other that sets some people apart, places themin the special category that Jim Christy calls "scalawag. Many adventurers are not even interesting, come to think of it, let alone scalawags. But you can be an adventurer, a conman or conwoman, a fool, liar, gambler, rodomontade or ragamuffin and not be a scalawag. In these pages you will encounter gamblers and adventurers, conmen and conwomen, rodomontades and ragamuffins, outright fools and outrageous liars.
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