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rara-avis@icomm.ca Subject: RARA-AVIS: upbeat endings not
hard boiled?
Sam Spade flirts ironically with the murderous vixen, if they
stretch your neck or i'll be waiting etc. the bad guys are on
the lam with the evidence in the cops' hands and Sam Spade is
free, his honor and ethics reaffirmed. That's as upbeat as I
can think of, and Maltese Falcon seems by acclamation to be
an avatar for hardboiledness.
Outcast.. Steil has solved the mystery, he's gonna come into
some money, his
boss will probably rip him off for a goodly percentage but
one suspects Steil has wised up enough that he won't be easy
pickings and may even have a rich life before him in the
States selling Freon. Seems almost upbeat to me.
In every single Spenser novel, Spenser with or without Hawk,
solves the crime, beds his girlfriend several times, walks
the dog. Seems upbeat to me.
The color guy, McDonald, the vato on the boat with the wise
side-kick in florida, always wins, the issues wrapped up all
nice and tight. Seems upbeat
to me.
Maybe I don't know what "upbeat" means. Am I
unsyncopated?
mvs
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