At 10:07 PM 23/08/2004 -0700, you wrote:
>I thought it might engender a chuckle or two ("Oh
that
>Doherty; he's at it, again"), but I didn't
really
>expect it to generate another discussion, and
I've
>been staying out of the current one because I want
to
>save my best stuff for Bouchercon.
>
>However, I don't want anyone to think that I've
beome
>suddenly acquiescent simply because I've been
silent.
>So I'll say this once and then wait for
Toronto.
Oh that Doherty; he certainly is tough, sticking to his guns
whatever criticism comes his way, but is he colloquial enough
to be hard boiled?
>The term, as has been discussed here before,
was
>coined by Marcel Duhamel, when he was assigned
to
>develop a mystery line, which he called SERIE
NOIR,
>for the French publisher Gallimard. As the guy
who
>coined the term, he's the guy who set the
parameters,
>and the parameters he set were pretty
wide.
Then we shall make history with a shiny new definition for
noir, one as screwed as a passenger on a romantic
roller-coaster ride. We shall declare it "The Toronto
Manifesto!"
>Simple, really.
Ah, but we are a simple people.
Gird your loins. Kerry
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