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rara-avis-l@yahoogroups.com, "Kerry J. Schooley"
<gsp.schoo@m...> wrote:
<<Colloquial. Didn't we agree on colloquial as the
characteristic for hard boiled?
I never did agree with that. For example, Richard Stark's
Parker books are not particularly colloquial. Language is not
what makes a character hardboiled. It's his attitudes and
actions, how he relates to the world. Other examples: Matt
Helm, many of Ross Thomas's characters (they are tough as
nails, but they speak unremarkable English).
<<Not that class entirely coincides with colloquial,
but we're getting awfully close. So much of it is about the
working stiff, or the disenfranchised. I don't think we're
talking Knob Hill colloquialisms here.>>
Class is revealed in speech, among othe things, but neither
it nor speech is the backbone of a hardboiled
character.
Best,
MrT
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