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Re: RARA-AVIS: Return to Slang Discussion
In a message dated 97-04-24 23:22:31 EDT, you write:
<< Looking through the RARA-AVIS archives, I followed a thread about
hardboiled slang. To return briefly to that topic, I recommend an essay
by S.J. Perelman, "Somewhere a Roscoe...", an essay that originally ran,
I think, in the New Yorker. It's a wonderful and funny piece about
tough-guy and pulp slang and the joys of reading Dan Turner, Hollywood
Detective stories. Perelman was a funny, funny guy who wrote for the
Marx Brothers. The easiest place to locate this essay is an anthology
titled "The Most of S.J. Perelman."
>>
Perhaps even more to the satirical point is Perelman's early 40s satirical
short short "Farewell, My Lovely Appetizer." It's found in some anthologies,
e.g., _The Defective Detective_, ed. Steve Carper, Citadel Press, 1992.
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