In a message dated 3/24/05 6:14:37 AM,
winter_writes@earthlink.net writes:
>
> Come the seventies, the gloves are off.
>
that's where it's at, my friends. Jacks attributes it to
returning Vietnam vets. I believe it is much more closely
tied to the cultural revolution of the 60s. people started
dressing a lot less formally as a result as well. nowadays,
if you see a guy in a Fedora, it's an affectation
but for better or worse, that's the language we're stuck with
these days, and if you censure yourself, it will be apparent
to the reader
while we're on the subject, one can't find more naturalistic
sounding dialogue in hardboiled these days than those spoken
by Brian Azzerello's often-doomed characters in his comic
book anthology series 100 Bullets
John Lau
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