--- In
rara-avis-l@yahoogroups.com, Patrick King
<abrasax93@...> wrote:
>
>
> --- DJ-Anonyme@... wrote:
>
> > Which is the book
> > where he starts off a drunk and has to sober up
to
> > save Velma? Isn't
> > that just the kind of dealing with booze
that
> > Patrick complained about?
>
>
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>
> He drinks hot coffee with Pat and gets over it.
I
> wouldn't say he "works through" the problem. I
don't
> think he even throws up. Hammer's ability to
handle
> booze is quite magical in all the books. My point
is,
> be it Hammer with booze or Spade with sociopaths,
most
> people cannot hope to deal with reality in this
same
> manner. That's what makes this escapist material.
Mike
> Hammer in an AA meeting sounds like a George
Carlin
> routine. Spillane would never have done it because
the
> idea is a downer.
>
> Patrick King
>
I love the idea of Mike Hammer in an AA meeting. George
Carlin is a good idea (he usually is with me) but a Saturday
Night Live type skit with various other characters would work
as well.
In many of the early hardboiled stories there was an
unreality about the hero's ability to handle booze as well as
the bounceback time from a beating. This was exaggerated even
further in Hollywood.
Richard Moore
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