RE: RARA-AVIS: The English Language

David A. Harvey (david@reportersink.com)
Sun, 9 Aug 1998 20:50:38 -0400 If hard-boiled can modify fiction, then why can't it modify woman? Cleary it
can; the question of boiling is left to context.

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-rara-avis@icomm.ca [mailto:owner-rara-avis@icomm.ca]On
> Behalf Of Lawrence R. (Dick) Tartow, M.D.
> Sent: Sunday, August 09, 1998 8:14 PM
> To: list rara-avis
> Subject: RARA-AVIS: The English Language
>
>
> Re:
> "Hard-Boiled Women Authors and Genre
> Sorry for causing all this heated debate :)"
>
> It would be gratifying if people who engage in discussions about
> literature in English of whatever genre would use the English language
> with a decent minimum of skill.
>
> How can a woman author write, or for that matter, do anything, after
> she has been hard-boiled.
> If the writer means "women authors of hard-boiled detective
> fiction" she
> should say that. This imbecilic type of discussion has
> already disrupted
> and decimated at least one other mystery list.
>
> I would suggest that the a major requirement of a true aficionado of
> Dashiell Hammett, father of the Maltese Falcon, the
> eponymous rara avis
> of this list, would be the lack of whining over whether men or women
> write better. Surely Hammett knew that men and women were NOT the
> same, which has nothing to do with one being 'better' than the other.
> If he didn't Lillian Hellman sure as hell would have reminded him!
>
>
> Alfred Kinsey
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