----- Original Message ----- From: "Brian Thornton" <
tieresias@worldnet.att.net>>
>>From Al Guthrie:
> > 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 think there's anything "emotionless" about
Hemingway's work.
> "Stoic," perhaps ("A Clean, Well-Lighted Place," or
"Cat in the Rain" come
> to mind here), but hardly devoid of
emotion.
Oops, it sounds as if I was commenting on Hemingway. That was
supposed to be a general response to Valerie's comments about
"emotionless...phrases." Emotionless=tough=hardboiled, not
noir -- that's all I intended to say. It's so long ago since
I read any Hemingway that I wouldn't wish to comment one way
or the other. If, indeed, there is an 'other'. So far,
everybody
(including Valerie, who used and then retracted the word
'emotionless') has agreed that his writing's emotional.
Al
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