In a message dated 24/06/03 12:17:42 AM GMT Daylight Time,
owner-rara-avis@icomm.ca writes:
<< But Hammett didn't write RED HARVEST for you -- he
wrote it for your
grandfather, who probably got a real kick out of it. I
think we
should write for the times we live in, and let
posterity hang. If it
happens it happens, but most writers want to be read in
their own
lifetimes, not some hazy spot in the future. I know I
do.>>
True, of course, but i think the thrust of the fred was that
some hb writers overuse (and perhaps create) slang to such an
extent that it isn't/wasn't smooth reading even on the day it
was published - I can't know, of course, but I suspect this
is the case with some passages in Harvest, where it seems
very close to parody or perhaps self-parody. Or just a guy
with a deadline.
- Mat C
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