--- Kerry <
gsp.schoo@skylinc.net> wrote:
> I'm going to climb halfway out on Jim's limb here
(
> keeping an eye on his
> saw hand) and agree there are significant
working
> class atmopherics to
> hardboil.
This has a lot to do with its origins in the pulps, which
were read primarily (thought not exclusively, of course) by
blue collar men in the twenties and thirties. There's at
least one whole book on this subject...the title escapes me
at the moment, but I believe it's by Dr. Erin Smith.
G.
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