On Fri, 14 Feb 1997, bob g. wrote: : Ok, so its valentine's day. I wonder what Sam Spade did on : valentine's day and for/with whom?? Effie? Miles Archer's widow? I bet he'd get Effie to buy herself some flowers, evade the widow, and go slap someone. : Any thoughts on other hardboiled heros? I can see Velda getting in some scrape while she's buying chocolates and Hammett killing a dozen people and sleeping with two women as he fights to get her back. Bill -- William Denton : Toronto, Canada : buff@vex.net : Caveat lector. http://www.vex.net/~buff/ <-- Anything on io.org is toast. - # RARA-AVIS: To unsubscribe, say "unsubscribe rara-avis" # to majordomo@icomm.ca