>my updated definitions:
>noir- a world or situation in which there is no
hope.
>hardboiled- the attitude with which one deals with
it.
Affirmative here, except in one respect.
I've always assumed that hardboiled was more than a stoic
attitude, but
included a professional (or moral) code, an idea "to bow down
to," as
Conrad's Marlow would put it. Spade inserts the code into his
goodbye
speech, saying it's more important than something as "maybe"
as love.
Bill Hagen
<billha@ionet.net>
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