In a message dated 8/24/04 10:47:34 AM,
buildsnburns@yahoo.com writes:
> Frankly, I feel like an undergraduate in
this
> "graduate studies" group. But I'll stick to
the
> basics.
>
> Hardboilded=tough
>
> Noir=screwed
>
> All the extra stuff like "colloquial" limits
Noir
> and Hardboiled and would still, I think,
exclude
> Chandler and John D. MacDonald.
>
> Like so many things--politics, religion, and
the
> Yankees--the arguments can go on forever with
no
> absolute meeting of the minds.
>
> The point is, I think, that those of us who
like
> hardboiled and noir know what it is when we
see
> it . . . well, maybe we might fight about some
of
> it, especially when we try to shoe-horn
Sherlock
> Holmes into Hardboiled or Hamlet into
noir.
>
> Jack Bludis
>
I'm with Jack
John Lau
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