At 07:12 PM 3/11/02 -0500, you wrote:
>i don't know about that. if we're separating the
boys
>according to sentimentality, i'd put hemingway by
himself
>in the sentimental chair and let chandler share the
cold
>fish couch with hammett.
And I don't know about that. Seems to me the couch is warm
and cosy too. I always caught a whiff of yearning behind
Spade and Marlowe's cynicism, as if that quality had been
hard earned and there was at least a possibility the lessons
would need repeating. All that yammer about a code of honour
too, a set of rules to make sense of the world and a man's
place in it; if that isn't sentimental, I don't know what
is.
Tough guys are the most sentimental of characters.
Kerry
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