----- Original Message ----- From: "CLehane" <
clehane@nea.org>
> Albert Camus once said, "The absurd has meaning only
in so far as it is
> not
> agreed to."--or something like that. Do you suppose
this applies to noir
> also?
I don't know about that, but there are definite similarities
between absurdity and
Cain/Woolrich/Willeford/Brewer/Goodis-line noir.
Ionesco said: "Absurd is that which is devoid of purpose."
Senseless, in other words. Which is surely what the doomed
man's life has become.
Cheers, Al
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