On Tue, 1 Feb 2000, Kevin Burton Smith wrote:
> >I think we can close this subject now, since
most of those mentioned don't
> >seem to be hardboiled.
> Hey, doesn't bug me if we slammed the lid on this
topic, but if
> you're referring to my list, I think a good case for
their hardboiled
> status could be made for most of them. Certainly
Manville Moon and
> Sid Halley and Dan Fortune and Slot Machine and
several of the
> walking wounded from the pages of Dime Detective
would definitely
> qualify as being suitably hard-boiled enough for the
oh-so-refined
> tastes of the members of this list.
And they certainly were part of the pulp industry and the
roots of every hardboiled novel, short story, film or
whatever lies in pulp fiction. So I think pulp fiction in
almost all its forms could - and should - be discussed
here.
> And yeah, Sharon, the original point about
cellphones was probably a
> joke (though your response was much funnier), but my
own response was
> serious. I mean, yeah, I love the old stuff, but
that doesn't mean I
> want the new stuff to pretend that the last forty or
fifty years
> didn't happen.
Maybe the cellphones are so connected to the marketing and
sponsoring world ("Hey guys! Did you notice those phones in
Matrix? We made them!") that it's not easy to accept them as
part of a serious piece of literature. I think they can be
used, but they mustn't become a nuisance, as computers and
medical jargon in Patricia Cornwell. They must be used only
as a tool, like someone pointed out. And make it short.
Juri
jurnum@utu.fi
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