> > Great punch can come from describing the most
desperate of
> > situations in emotionless, ticker-tape
phrases.
> It can indeed, but I'd suggest the hardboiled
epithet is a better fit.
> Emotionless noir, to my mind, is an
oxymoron.
I don't mean that Hemingway's stories are emotionless, though
-- far from it. Only that he uses deliberately wooden (bad
word choice there, I can't think of a better one at the
moment) language to bring the reader to the emotions of the
characters. Which is a neat trick.
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