Re: RARA-AVIS: colloquial and hardboiled

From: JIM DOHERTY ( jimdohertyjr@yahoo.com)
Date: 23 Apr 2002

Jack,

Re your comment below:

> Hardboiled has to do with attitude and
> follow-through--not with diction.

Toughness is expressed by follow-through. Attitude by diction. If you don't believe mem check out a dandy private eye novel called THE BIG SWITCH and see if it doesn't.

JIM DOHERTY

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