On Fri, 5 Jan 2001, Etienne Borgers wrote:
> In French : disparaî´²e (verb) and disparition
(noun)
> (literally: disappearing) means also the person
you
> speak of is dead. In a kind of metaphoric way,
but
> it's a quite usual expression in that
language.
Thanks for clarifying. Now, did I embarrass myself like a
baboon, when I asked Roger Martin what he meant by saying
Albert disappeared?
> I was myself briefly in contact with Martin, two
years
> ago, in the hope to translate into English
the
> invaluable research he did about hard-boiled
lit
> authors, for his now defunct magazine "HB Dicks".
I
> had the idea to publish some of them in my
Hard-Boiled
> Mysteries web-site
> He was open to the idea, but lack of time on my
side,
> and distance, all made I could not materialize
the
> idea.
This sounds good. Why not try it again?
Juri
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