Briefly, on humor: From the late 70s to 1980, someone named
Ross H.
Spencer (a pseudonym) published a series of way over the top,
surreal
hardboiled parodies (PBOs). All three (?) books are written
in
one-sentence paragraphs. Here's a selection:
Headlights groped yellowly through the tentacled night and
sirens
wailed like lost souls.
There was plenty of atmosphere but it was worthless.
Foggy nights don't matter much anymore.
It used to be you couldn't have a foggy night without a
whole bunch of
vampires and werewolves piling out of old castles and caves
and starting
a class AAA diarrhea epeidemic.
Does anyone know these books and who wrote them?
Any last thoughts on Highsmith? I finished Talented a few
days ago, and
will try to post final reflections in a day or two.
>Doug Levin
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