Thanks for that, Dick. I confess that I haven't read any of
the posthumously released stuff aside from A MOVEABLE FEAST.
I have no doubt that Hemingway read and liked Hammett's
stuff. The other claims in support of that point seem a
stretch to me.
Brian
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From: Dick Lochte
To:
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Sent: Sunday, November 25, 2007 6:43 PM
Subject: RARA-AVIS: Re: Hammett and... Henry
James
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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