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RARA-AVIS: Locale
This thread spurred me into submitting my own introduction. I
work at the State Historical Society of Missouri as a photo specialist
but have always been interested in literature, particularly mysteries.
Somewhere I read that mystery fans are those that love putting chaos
(the ultimate chaos being murder)into order.
This urban setting thread makes me think of the movie <Fargo>.
It definitely has a noir atmosphere in a country/rural setting. I
haven't thought this out completely but it seems there are adjectives
that could define noir more closely than nouns.
Cold/stark/bleak/violent/dark and also hot/steamy/violent, etc.
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Subject: Re: RARA-AVIS: Locale
Author: rara-avis@icomm.ca at internet-ext
Date: 1/22/97 7:49 AM
>are steamy hot, and drive people to unthinkable acts. Where does that
>Chandler line about the wind coming in and wives eyeing the kitchen
>knife come from?
That famous line is from Chandler's story "Red Wind," by the way.
Regarding rural hard-boiled settings, I believe Jim Thompson
wrote some; also, there are the swamp or backwoods sagas and fit
the category. The Travis McGee series occasionally takes place in
rural settings, as well. Still, I usually associate hard-boiled
with urban settings, even though it isn't always.
Richard King (rking@vunet.vinu.edu
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