Thanks for the link. The advice is solid. Leonard belongs to
the Hemingway-E.B. White-Orwell school of writing. And he
practices what he preaches.
Now the NYT should ask James Lee Burke to write a similar
column, just to present the opposite point of view and
confuse things.
Sequitur: If you're Faulkner, anything goes. I just finished
rereading _Go Down Moses_, a masterpiece of characterization.
The verbiage is part of the thing, and the thing is quite
hardboiled in spirit, as is often the case with Faulkner. Few
people today read this type of book, and even fewer write it.
Is it because nowadays authors are fearful of offending
readers, or of sounding callous? Which brings us back, at
least tangentially, to the American manhood and womanhood
thing.
Regards,
MrT
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