Jim,
Re your response to my comment below:
> > "Noir" impplicitly means a story that falls
into
> the
> > crime fiction genre. Wellman certainly
wrote
> > mysteries. Is this story a mystery or
a
> supernatural
> > horror story, or a cross-genre
piece?
>
> Oh, I missed the crime fiction part of
your
> definition, at least as in the
> post I was quoting from.
"Implicit" means clear without having to be explicitly
stated. Since Rara-Avis is a list devoted to the discussion
of crime fiction, specifically crime fiction falling into the
hard-boiled/noir variety, it doesn't seem necessary to me to
spell that out. When I see the question "What is noir?" or
"What is nard-boiled?" I infer the phrase "in crime fiction"
since crime fiction is the subject of the list. Similarly
when I say "Noir is thus-and such" or
"Hard-boiled is thus and such" I assume that that it's clear
I'm referring to crime fiction.
JIM DOHERTY
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