Curt wrote:
"Why "laugh"? Why assume the reaction will be negative? Are
the hardboiled conventions so ridiculous?"
Perhaps not "ridiculous," but certainly so moored in their
cultural context that to remove them, however abstractly,
might make them seem so to some.
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