mark coggins said: The difference between FALCON and KEY is
that Hammett took this objective business one step further
and rather than saying Spade did this or Spade did that, he
always says Ned Beaumont did this or Ned Beaumont did that.
Always repeating both names makes the character seem even
more distanced from the reader, I think.
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hammett stole the technique of always using the full name
from hemingway's _for whom the bell tolls_, where robert
jordan is always robert jordan, and never robert, god forbid
bob, and don't even think about bobby.
the impressive thing about hammett stealing this technique
from hemingway is that the glass key came out in 1931, and
the spanish civil war, upon which _for whom the bell tolls_
is based, didn't start until 1937. thats amazing, isn't it?
how did he do that?
miker
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