Greg
swan@poboxes.com
michael david sharp wrote:
>
> Dennis --
> I rather liked your interpretation, wrong or
not.
>
> Spent yesterday trying (w/ my students) to figure out
the popularity of
> Carroll John Daly. Editor of Black Mask Boys (William
F. Nolan) trashes
> him even as he asserts his place at the origin of the
hardboiled
> phenomenon. My kids absolutely (and hilariously) tore
Daly apart. Of
> course they'd just started reading Maltese Falcon,
which can make even
> competent writing look hack by comparison.
M-
>
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> On Wed, 21 Jan 1998, DCardKJHS wrote:
>
> > Hell's Bells! I should have had the good sense
to use the reference sources
> > at my command before popping off with my
semi-plausible off the top of my head
> > explanation of this particular usage of
"johnson". Apologies to all who
> > thought I sounded like a snickering schoolboy
uttering "nasties" in class.
> > Dennis
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