In a message dated 07/09/01 04:14:05 GMT Daylight Time,
jimdohertyjr@yahoo.com writes:
<<
In other words, though they may walk the walk,
they
don't talk the talk. And, to be hardboiled,
talking
the talk is almost as important as walking the
walk.
>>
In terms of what constituted talking the talk in
Victorian/Edwardian England, Watson is of relatively humble
origins and Sherlock spits out a mean one liner on occasion,
particularly when moved to comment on the nature of man, none
of which spring to mind at the moment! I know that this if
off strand and goes back to old old arguments but I just
bought HARDBOILED, an anthology of American Crime Stories,
compiled by GORMAN and PROZINI, and published in this country
by Oxford University Press, I do not have it in front of me
but they included a definition of hardboiled in the
introduction that would be of interest to all on the list and
no doubt provoke debate!
Keep talking the talk Colin
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