RARA-AVIS: Indifference

sandra hess (shess@sirius.com)
Tue, 9 Jun 1998 21:33:40 -0700 (PDT) >Lawrence R. (Dick) Tartow, M.D. wrote:

>>And since "hard-boiled detectives" are indifferent
>> to violence, I really don't think that there are any female hard-boiled
>> types. Tough, unsentimental, yes. But "indifferent to violence"? I
>> think not.

I don't think of hardboiled characters as indifferent to violence. They may
not be naive about violence. They surely encounter plenty of it, but I think
the term 'indifferent' is off-target. Indifference to violence is more the
domain of a sociopath.

Sch.

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