RE: RARA-AVIS: Chemical Dependence and Hard-Boiledness
James Rogers (jetan@ionet.net)
Sat, 15 Aug 1998 20:58:44 -0500 (CDT)
At 05:24 PM 8/15/98 -0400, you wrote:
>Many PIs in the last decade or two have started to use
drugs (or at
>least finally admit to inhaling). Off the top of my head
I can think of
>Crumley's heroes, G.M. Ford's wonderful Leo Waterman,
Dan Cormany's Dan
>Kruger, who shares a joint with a young runaway he was
hired to find,
>and Pelecanos's Nick Stefanos. Almost without exception,
though, the
>drugs are used with alcohol, so it still reads much the
same, while
>adding a contemporary hip signifier to say This isn't
your Dad's private
>eye.
>
>Mark
>>
Not sure that it is really that new, though, considering
the
laudenaum scene with the Op in RED HARVEST.
James
James Michael Rogers
jetan@ionet.net
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