Patrick King wrote:
>Hemingway cited Hammett as an influence on his
sparse,
>discriptive sentence structure. It may be in
A
>MOVEABLE FEAST, but Hemingway's specific quote
on
>Hammett is not hard to find.
To which Brian Thornton replied:
Show, don't tell, Patrick. If it's so easy to find, please
show it to us. I've read A MOVEABLE FEAST twice and I don't
recall any specific reference along those lines at all. I
suppose it's possible that I missed it, but being the big
Hammett fan that I am, I doubt I'd have missed a reference
like that one.
The only reference I recall is in one of the last of the
posthumously published Hemingways, probably True at First
Light. The author and one of his wives are on safari and, at
his request, she reads Hammett to him by firelight. I do not
recall any specific comment on the quality of the work or its
influence, but the assumption is that he liked it.
Dick Lochte
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