Mario Taboada said:
<<I've come to the conclusion that abusing slang is a
weakness in a writer. If a story is good, you don't need so
much garnish. A bit goes a long way.>>
I don't know that it shows a weakness, but it doesn't seem
real to me. I get the impression that the old Black Mask
writer made things up and passed them on into the literature
and to the movies with no regard for how criminals really
talk. "Gat?" "C-note?" "Piece?" (as in "Gat")
Mr. T also said:
<<Even Chandler's patois gets tiresome
sometimes.>>
That, I don't agree with--except on those rare ocassions when
Chanlder piled them on back to back to back, obscuring the
story in his style.
Jack Bludis
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