RE: RARA-AVIS: Umberto Eco on Spillane

Bruce Townley (btownley@sirius.com)
Thu, 23 Dec 1999 16:39:02 -0800 (PST)

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On Wed, 22 Dec 1999 at 14:45 James Rogers sent: RE: RARA-AVIS: Umberto Eco on Spillane

> The comments thus far have persuaded me that Eco is correct and that
>translating "downtown" is harder than it looks.
> I wonder how he'd cope with "bagman".

Or "hard-boiled" for that matter.

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