ultimately whether or not non-Americans are capable of
producing hard-boiled material goes back to our never-ending
discussion on what hard-boiled is.
if it is indeed merely a question of prose, then yes,
the fact that Americanese tends to be clipped and slangy
lends itself to that argument.
but if hard-boiled is the by-product of attitude, and
I for one am a strong proponent of this idea, then I see no
reason why even Martians can't produce decent
hard-boiled.
John Lau
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