----- Original Message ----- From: "Kerry Schooley" <
gsp.schoo@skylinc.net>
> It was an aside Al. If I understand correctly, you'd
inverted what you
feel
> are the usual viewpoints of noir and
hardboil?
You have misunderstood, Kerry.
I wrote:
<<You find out if you write a parody (as I've just
done) that it's difficult
<<to convince if you write noir from the detective's
viewpoint or hardboiled
<<from the victim's.
The parenthesis refers to writing a parody, not to the
subsequent clause. In other words, "write a parody, as I've
just done", and not "that it's difficult to convince (as I've
just done)". The latter would be quite an achievement. The
first half of the parody ("Little Red Riding Hood") is
hardboiled, the second half noir. What I meant is that my
task would have been much more difficult had I not switched
point of view for the noir half, or tried to write the first
half from the viewpoint of the PI's attractive client.
>Second inversion: parody,
> which uses exaggeration and the inversion of
customary viewpoints to
> achieve humour and revelation.
I've certainly exaggerated, but I haven't inverted customary
viewpoints. Should I have? All the Chandler parodies I've
read are written from the PI's viewpoint. There again, maybe
it's me that's out to lunch.
Al
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