At 09:28 AM 01/10/2005 -0400, Frederick Zackel wrote:
>And I started thinking about our current bunch of
All-American creationists
>and Intelligent Designers, (twisting Dave Z.'s words)
"all grasping for
>whatever hope they can get a glimmer of only to have
it ripped away." In a
>universe of chaos, those religionists (?) are noir.
They are screwed. To
>twist Kerry J. Schooley's words, they "aspire to a
set of values that have
>no meaning outside their world... It is a set of
values that can only be
>maintained with a lot of work done for no purpose
other than to try to make
>that particular set of values work, and the strength
of character to ignore
>the obvious consequences of that work..." Without
Providence, without a
>loving personal god who makes sense and who watches
over them, they're
>screwed.
>
>----------
Yeah, this is cool. For now. You should probably add Jim's
POV too, that noir is what it was defined as in the early to
mid twentieth century- crime writing evoking a dark
atmosphere because that's what a handful of influential
publishers of the time used to define the stories they were
publishing.
Why he should choose those particular set of experts, and not
earlier critics and others who used such terms as roman noir,
or others who followed (excluding moi, of course) who saw
other things as well, I don't know, but it is still valuable
input.
Noir, like any form of writing, is a creative activity and
it's going to evolve and change, and be hard to categorize
precisely. Has a certain writer transcended noir, or extended
it? To discuss such things is just another way of considering
the writer's work.
Best, Kerry
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