RARA-AVIS: Re: HAMMETT: Cynical Hammett (Was: Ned Beaumont)

Lawrence R. (goldensam@sprintmail.com)
Sat, 18 Apr 1998 13:42:24 -0400 Keep in mind that Hammett was paid by the word, and some of the
> oddties in his stories can be explained by his need for lucre, filthy
> or otherwise.

Didn't Dickens do essentially the same thing? Viz. The Pickwick Papers.

--
Dick Tartow


Ven you're a married man, Samivel, you'll understand a good many things
as you don't understand now; but vether it's worthwhile, goin' through
so much, to learn so little, as the charity-boy said ven he got to the
end of the alphabet, is a matter o' taste.
---Mr. Weller, in The Pickwick Papers, (Charles Dickens)














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