There was an earlier brawl, uh tussle, about Hemingway and Chandler or Hammett that occurred right here on R-A. Of the "combatants," the one I remember was Jiro Kimura, who argued that Hemingway was influenced BY hard-boiled, especially late in his career. Believe he's right. You'll find the exchange in the archives. Bill Hagen <billha@ionet.net> - # RARA-AVIS: To unsubscribe, say "unsubscribe rara-avis" # to majordomo@icomm.ca