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rara-avis-l@yahoogroups.com, vhend1234@... wrote:
>
> I tried to find the answer to the year cockfighting
was outlawed, but I just
> see a lot of things that are still being done to
strengthen the laws.
> Apparently, it has been illegal for quite some time,
but either the law hasn't been
> enforced or there are loopholes. True, magazines on
Cockfighting still exist
> nonetheless. I'm not a very good researcher, so
maybe someone else can find
> out the year the law was originally
passed.
> Vicki
No matter, this sport is not a _crime_ in the sense in which
we talk about "crime fiction". Think of what would happen if
suddenly boxing was outlawed... would you say that a story
involving boxing was criminous? I think that _the_ archetypal
crime in crime fiction is murder. This includes the threat or
the suspicion of murder.
A noir novel without any crime whatever is Patricia
Highsmith's _Edith's Diary_, one of the bleakest cold showers
I have ever read. It's really nasty as well as scary.
Best,
MrT
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