RE: RARA-AVIS: the black bird

Bill Hagen (billha@ionet.net)
Fri, 5 Dec 1997 22:17:38 -0600 (CST) Duane wrote recently, [Hammett] " had tumbling in his brain all his
critical takes
on literature and a desire to use in his own work what he'd learned from
his reading."

Wondered about that. Isn't the Flitcraft story close to a Hawthorne story
about a man who walks away from his wife and lives, undetected, nearby for
years? Can't recall the title. The allegorical features of Falcon, noted
by Fred Zackel, remind one of Hawthorne also.

Bill Hagen
<billha@ionet.net>

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