Who was B. Traven?

(OK, I'm a little drunk so this may not make total sense.)

If you don't know who B. Traven is, just google the name or google "Treasure of the Sierra Madre" instead.

He spoke German and English, was an anarcho/socialist, and wanted to keep his identity totally secret.

In other words,

He was a Wobbly, full of their cult of anonymity and wanted to keep his identity secret, which was harder and harder as his books kept selling and even became best selling movies, and everyone wanted to know who he was.

You want to know who he was? Look for a Wobbly who spoke German and had to flee, who disappeared. But there are too many people who fit that description, aren't there? You'll never find him now. Which was his idea. And I sympathize. Totally.

B. Traven went to Mexico and tried to be anonymous, tellling lie after lie after lie to be anonymous. Wouldn't you? If you were smart, and he was, wasn't he? If you were a Wobby wanted by the law in the US, and probably Germany, too. I don't know who he was, but I'm sure everything told by now is full of lies. B. Traven was a Wobbly, probably (almost certainly) wanted by the law, and afraid of being found out until he died.

I'll drinkn to the wobblies. Especially if B. Traven was one of them.

Maybe more when I'm sober. Hasta la vista, baby!

In the meantime, here's to B . Traven!