Re: RARA-AVIS: Re: The Reading List, and some other blather...

Mari Hall (found.dead.in.texas@airmail.net)
Mon, 06 Apr 1998 09:55:20 -0500 Kevin Smith wrote:
>
innocent (or not so innocent) bystanders is no longer a big
international news story. It happens too often. Sorry.

Yeah, happened here in Dallas.
>
> And isn't one of the points of much of hardboiled fiction an attempt to let us get a handle on a less-than-perfect reality?

It's escapism in it's truest form.
>

-- 
whose DOROTHYL nom is Kate Warne the ex-Pinkerton in
The Woman With the Rose Tattoo by Mari Hall
See y'all at Bouchercon 29 in Philly Oct.1-4
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