According to Francis Nevins, in his introduction to Boucher's
"Exeunt Murderers",
"He had enough hobbies for a small army - gourmet cooking,
wine culture, football and basketball, Gilbert and Sullivan,
theology, limericks, multilingual Scrabble, poker - and gave
time and skill to each". More, Boucher was a big opera fan,
record collector and radio broadcaster, writer of printed
program notes for classical concerts, political spokesman and
so on. In Nevins' words, "Boucher lived and worked at 78rpm
while the rest of the world revolved lazily at 33".
Luca Conti
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Inviato: giovedi 24 agosto 2000 15.10 A:
rara-avis@icomm.ca Oggetto: RARA-AVIS: Boucher / limerick
porn
I don't know a lot about Anthony Boucher beyond his being a
mystery reviewer for the NYTimes and a sometime writer. I
think "Bouchercon" is named for him, but I'm not even sure
what "Bouchercon" is. ANYWAY, I was doing research on Kenneth
Millar (Ross Macdonald) at UC Irvine and found letters from
Boucher to Millar that were hilarious for one simple reason:
they contained pornographic (and I mean graphic) limericks. I
was expecting some kind of insightful exchange about the
status of the mystery genre, and I get something along the
lines of "There once was a man from Nantucket," only
raunchier. One was a "tenson" -- a longish debate poem. In
this one, which is in limerick stanzas, two men debate the
proper object of sexual desire. Was Boucher known for this
kind of "humor"???
Michael D. Sharp Assistant Professor Binghamton University
(SUNY) Department of English Binghamton, NY 13902-6000
(607) 777-2418
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