Soooo... raise your hand if you knew that the author of True Grit lives in Little Rock. Yeah, I'm a literary dunce. Just cruising my Facebook last night and ran across some of my friends talking about chance meetings with some cat named Charlie Portis. I totally had to look it up. Their ramblings about Portis not digging the spotlight so much are confirmed in this December piece in the Wall Street Journal.

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Went to eat crawfish at Faded Rose and had the pleasure of sitting next to Charlie Portis. We talked about crappie fishen on Cache River, a trip he took to San Fransico and Mike Anderson coming back to Arkansas . We talked about everything except the fact he wrote True Grit !

Crawfish was awesome too .
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Brent Hendrix Hey Greg, Pretty cool. I ran into Vic Snyder yesterday and didn't even recognize him.
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Greg Conley Why not ?
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Jay Lawson WAY cool Greg!
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Brent Hendrix I was concentrating on my tray of food and just kind of looked up to see a man there, but not looking at his face. The cashier told me.
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Clay Nelson That is cool Conley. Just shooting the breeze with the famous. I did that this morning with JC
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Greg Conley What would Jesus say to Charlie Portis ?
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Greg Conley And how is New Zealand ?
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Clay Nelson Probably something like "I love you and always have"
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Clay Nelson NZ getting back to the new normal
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Greg Conley Awsome ! Take care down there .

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Clay Nelson You too. Pulling for ya
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Greg Conley Pullen for you to !!
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Nathan Christian Greg Charlie used to hang out at Cajun's a lot and I had very similar experiences with him. As down to earth as a human can be!
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Greg Conley Hey brother !! Where are ya. Now ?
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Morgan P. Knight Story time:
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Nathan Christian I'm in grad school in Seattle. Work for Verizon wireless. Be teachin' fifth graders in a year or so.
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Greg Conley Morgan ! Begin. Nathan . Awsome man . Good for you . I know a buddy of mine up there name Steve Charles from here . One of the coolest guys you would ever meet . Look him up . He is a facebook friend of mine.
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Morgan P. Knight When I worked at Cajun's Wharf as a barback, circa 1984-87, Charles Portis used to come in as a customer . He always came in at opening, about 4:30 in the afternoon, and left after 2 drinks (CC & water?) around 5:30. He was always very quiet and would only speak to the bartender Scott Farqhuar if he asked a question. We never spoke about any of his work (he would have walked out).
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Morgan P. Knight Interesting guy, the conversations between he and Scott were always about cars, engines, etc.
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Nathan Christian Morgan you should know that when I was a ba rback at cajun's in 2005 that was still the case. Great stuff!
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Morgan P. Knight Really Nathan? That is way cool.
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Nathan Christian Seriously Morgan. Same routine and everything. Two drinks!
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Morgan P. Knight Yes, that was him. He has a routine. Was driving an rust colored Bronco ('78?) with a white top at the time I met him. He kept life very simple and would completely dismiss you or disappear if you brought up his work.
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Nathan Christian Some things, some people, never change. Take care. And thanks Charlie!
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Mza Hale Greg who is this Steve Charles dude you speak of?
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Morgan P. Knight MZA, what do you know?
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Mza Hale That I Have Tru GRIT!!!!!..................................on DVD:)
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Jp Morell Missed opportunity to plug my sister's show "Tales from the South." he probably would have come by the restaurant and shared a story with the patrons:-(
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