<<<Wasn't it also Hammett who said.
"He told me to do something that was anatomacally
imposssible." ?>>>
Actually, I think Chandler said it, although Chandler was
also using the bleep button in THE BIG SLEEP. Ross MacDonald
seems to have the most fun dodging use of F bombs in THE
DROWNING POOL. Archer's narrative sounds rather amused when
he gets into confrontation and relates how his opponent told
him repeatedly to do the anatomically impossible. (Now I'm
going to have to go dig that book out and look it up.)
Not more than five years later, Spillane seems to be biting
his tongue to avoid it. It's their in the dialogue, but it's
not said.
Come the seventies, the gloves are off. Each early Spenser
novel (You know, when Spenser was three dimensional, Hawk was
scary, and Susan was merely the smart girlfriend instead of
Aphrodite incarnate?) has an increasing number of F bombs. By
the nineties, they're all over the f***ing place.
I do think it's a generational thing, methinks, which might
explain why outcry over perceived obscenity is given more
weight lately. Maybe people are getting tired of being
"shocked," particularly when nothing is shocking
anymore.
Jim Winter
Northcoast Shakedown
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