RE: RARA-AVIS: Gunsel (Re:Hammett & Chandler & Burroughs/Black Mask Hard Boiled)

From: Martha Fischer ( sakana@stlnet.com)
Date: 14 Apr 2000


the scene in the book in which spade disarms wilmer is written very much as a sex scene between the two-- once you notice it, it's quite striking.

martha sakana@stlnet.com <mailto: sakana@stlnet.com>

> -----Original Message-----
>
> >When I saw the movie some time ago the Swedish subtitles
> >translated "gunsel" by the homosexual meaning
> >--
> >#
>
> I think that the meaning is closer to "punk", in the prison sense.
> Could be wrong.
>
> James
>
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