Bill Hagen (billha@ionet.net)
Tue, 14 Sep 1999 23:59:35 -0500 (CDT)
I guess if we're into doing great hard-boiled lines, that may
or may not appear in hard-boiled fiction or film, we should
include Flannery O'Connor's bleak line from "A Good Man Is
Hard to Find," wherein the killer, after shotgunning a
grandmother, says something like, "She'd a been a good woman
if there'd been someone there to shoot her every day of her
life."
Now that's a line that sticks to you. And many of O'Connors'
stories belong somewhere in the noir universe, even if
"gothic" was the favorite adjective of critics.
Bill Hagen
<billha@ionet.net>
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