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| Apparently not a fan of slots or blackjack. |
You should have furrowed your brow bright there when thinking about Harper Lee somehow connected to not only a casino, but Donald Trump's Taj Mahal Atlantic City Casino.
In a letter dated from 1990 found in Lee's New York City apartment, and currently up for auction online, Lee wrote a friend regarding having guests stay at the Taj Mahal. "The worst punishment God can devise for this sinner is to make her spirit reside eternally at the Trump Taj Mahal in Atlantic City," Lee wrote, shortly after the casino was opened.
On the campaign trail, Trump hasn't commented, but it'll probably be this:
"Who's Harper Lee? I mean, really, who is she? She's washed up. I'm telling you. She hasn't released anything new in, like, fifty years, maybe more. It's kid stuff, that Mockingbird junk. When I owned the Taj Mahal, it was the greatest casino ever developed. It was more popular, more important than the one in India. No one on the planet had seen such a thing. I mean, really, what would you rather do? Play at the greatest casino on the planet or read a dopey book about I, I, I don't even know--what's that book about?--bird killing? Do you want to read about birds being murdered? What's it, a how-to manual? Get her outta here with this stuff."
Lee's letter, by the way, has a current bid of $1,330.
Don't we all want to know the reasoning behind why Harper Lee was hosting guests at a New Jersey casino in the first place, regardless of the Trump angle? This is akin to F. Scott Fitzgerald inviting friends to AA meetings or Ernest Hemingway deciding that knitting circles are the next hot happening trend.
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