----- Original Message ----- From: "Bludis Jack" <
buildsnburns@yahoo.com>
> Al, although I generally disagree with his
long
> post, is partially correct. There are
probably
> people out there writing PI who never heard
of
> Chandler or Hammett but indirectly at least,
I
> think they are influenced.
Spoken like a gentleman, Jack. You're probably right. Which,
I repeat, I find disturbing. It's almost 2003.
> Indirectly or directly, we are influenced by
the
> books we read, by our teachers, friends . .
.
> hell, some of us were even influenced by
our
> parents.
Would you agree that some books are more influential than
others? Is it too much to theorise that some books on the
lower end of the scale have virtually no effect? Maybe I've
just got a psychopathic personality.
> In some ways this exchange on the Marlowe
> paradigm, which I entered only a day or two
ago,
> has given me some ideas, and it will
probably
> influence at least some of my future
work.
>
> I might want to go to an anti-Chandler
Paradigm.
I'll buy it. I'll even pay for it now.
Al
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