Miker wrote:
...
> But to be honest, I would say that Lionel is indeed
pretty darned
> tough. He's persistent even in the face of danger,
isn't he? I'd call
> that tough. I don't think a character needs to be a
macho shitkicker
> to qualify as hardboiled.
I agree his persistence shines through. But I just felt the
guy was a bit too earnest, beneath his Tourettisms. Earnest
is not hardboiled. A little bit of PC flying around in there
as well (and AFAIK the merest trace of PC is too much
PC).
> And never hesitate to bring up the definitions
debate. It's always
> worth a go.
That's debateable!
Charlie Williams.
-- # Plain ASCII text only, please. Anything else won't show up. # To unsubscribe from the regular list, say "unsubscribe rara-avis" to # majordomo@icomm.ca. This will not work for the digest version. # The web pages for the list are at http://www.miskatonic.org/rara-avis/ .
This archive was generated by hypermail 2b29 : 17 Aug 2003 EDT