Juri Nummelin wrote:
> tOn Thu, 7 Sep 2000
jjnevins@ix.netcom.com wrote:
>
> > I'm afraid I don't see how that follows. I
don't think, either,
> > that Chandler felt that the character's words
weren't worth quoting,
> > so much as feeling constrained by The Rules.
And even if the
> > character wasn't significant enough to be
quoted, I don't see how
> > that establishes aesthetic grounds for
evaluating language.
>
> It wasn't the rules, it was Chandler himself, the
English-bred
> aesthetic, who confessed he'd never mastubated
because he had been
> taught not to. How on earth could this man have
written "Motherfucking
> asshole"? Chandler hated James M. Cain for being
vulgar (I wrote
> "bulgar" twice), I just wonder what he would've said
of someone like
> Ellroy.
Okay, so Chandler didn't like swearing. Still doesn't mean
that the lack-of-swears approach is necessarily the superior.
In this day and age it's certainly not more realistic.
jess
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