On Wednesday, April 30, 2003, at 03:00 AM, RARA-AVIS Digest
wrote:
>> They can, so get over it.
>
> Ah yes. But do they? (Little happy face thingee
here.)
>
Nah, too grown up.
Sorry - couldn't resist.
But seriously(-ish) I was reading something yesterday about
the difference between men and women which fixed on the idea
that both women and their writings are more empathic than
male writers and theirs. (Love these sweeping
generalizations, they grab me every time.)
Anyhoo - it set me to wondering whether the
School of Spillane was something that an empathetic person of
either gender would be very interested in becoming involved
in nowadays. With the demise of the old pulp magazines, the
financial rewards for that kind of straight-faced cartoonish
hardboilery must be rather limited these days?
Personally, I find reading about a tough guy who has
absolutely no interest in, or insight into, the feelings of
either himself or other people is...boring. (I've known one
or two people like that in real life; they've all been
criminals.)
Could I write old-fashioned hard-boiled? I'd find it hard to
do because I think I'd always slip into caricature.
Joy? Anybody else?
Marianne
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