RARA-AVIS: Re: On Noir

From: Dave Zeltserman ( davezelt@comcast.net)
Date: 29 Sep 2005


Kerry, that's okay. Tragedy would have my words misconstrued no matter how honorable my intention. Psychotic noir would have me obsessing about it to the point where I rationalized the legitimacy of hunting you down in Canada, only to find myself eaten by a polar bear (or whatever anaimals you have up there), and of course, describing my thoughts as there's less and less of me...

Dave Z.

--- In rara-avis-l@yahoogroups.com, "Kerry J. Schooley"
<gsp.schoo@m...> wrote:
> Sorry Dave:
>
> Thought it was you who said noir was little more than working-
class
> tragedy. It was Marc Seals quoting Dennis Lehane. You argued for
the
> opposition. I've got to stop trying to correspond when I only dip
into the
> ongoing conversation.
>
> Now you know why I think the world is doomed. My world at least.
>
> best,
> Kerry
>
> At 09:41 PM 29/09/2005 +0000, you wrote:
> >!)
> > >
> > > But you're not looking for noir in these stories Dave. By your
> >definition,
> > > you're looking for tragedy in dungarees. If you don't accept
noir as
> >a
> > > genre distinct from tragedy, you can't expect to recognize it
when
> >you come
> > > across it.
> > >
> >
> >I don't get your point, Kerry - I thought in my posts I was
making a
> >fairly explicit distinction between tragedy and noir?? Don't
quite get
> >the tragedy in dungarees reference either.
> >
> >Dave Z.
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