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rara-avis-l@yahoogroups.com, Michael Robison
<miker_zspider@...> wrote:
>
> Within the last few days someone brought up
the
> town-taming in Red Harvest and asked if any
real-life
> examples existed. Although subsequent examples
might
> not directly mention hardboiled, the relationship
was
> understood. If you read a little closer in
this
> thread, you will see at least a couple recent
comments
> I made as to whether Spillane will become classic
or
> if he already is classic. The question of what is
a
> classic is intimately tied to the question, and
the
> subject of what qualities comprise a classic are
also
> pertinent. So, just like the town-taming
question,
> although hardboiled might not be directly
mentioned,
> it is still understood to tie back to an
on-topic
> discussion.
>
Heh--you're probably ready to wrangle with me for 500+ posts
over the definition of "on topic." No dice, man. This is the
last I'll have to say on it. Had the corruption thread
meandered too far off-topic, I certainly would not have kept
it up for hundreds of posts, and I would have been
exasperated if someone else did. My impression of the
literature thread is that substantive discussion of Spillane
ended something like 2000 posts ago, and he's been shunted to
the far periphery except for token mentions like the ones you
cite above.
> I don't really mind if your definition of what
is
> on-topic varies from mine. But I do mildly object
to
> your repeated censuring of what I and several
others
> (many of them long-time members) do find on-topic.
I
> have made an attempt to keep the topic in the
subject
> line, even as it shifts. I humbly request that
you
> simply don't read them.
How many people had to complain about that death penalty
garbage before you guys finally got a clue and put a sock in
it? Four or five, as I recall--I know I wasn't the only one,
or even the first. It's a shame if "long term members"
haven't learned by now how to tell when they've gone too far
afield on a tangent, when their hundreds of
is-not-is-too-is-not-is-too exchanges have become a kind of
online pollution, and when everyone else is losing patience
with having to wade through it all.
Blather on if you want. I'm done.
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