This has been fascinating to follow on the archive.
I'm new to this list, but I'm going to butt in anyway. I've
always thought of 'hard-boiled' fiction as being defined by
its language; that is, language which avoids overt expression
of emotion, or even the existence of emotion, language which
purports to give the facts and the facts only, language which
describes using the minimum of adjectives. It would also be
language which tells you something about its user only by the
fact that it is being used. Not sure where that leaves "The
Big Sleep," but then Marlowe, in my view, is a four minute
egg, not a six minute one.
Cheers Chris
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