--- In rara-avis-l@yahoogroups.com, BaxDeal@... wrote:
>
> I'm trying to decide if choosing your friends by the smell of his ass is a
> hardboiled or noirish trait. I'm also a bit pressed to find anything
> remotely hardboiled in my Bichon Frise. amoral perhaps. but hardboiled, not
> so much. and I do have to wonder if an individual with 9 lives can truly be
> doomed. maybe, if you've used up 8. but that's still more chances than
> most of us get
>
Well, remember how many times it took the Dortmunder gang to get close to the Hot Rock? One night I started thinking of taking that novel and rewriting it with all the humor taken out. It didn't go beyond theoretical speculation, but I think it could be done. The danger is that it might become a standard "thriller"!
mrt
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