Al,
Re your question below:
> Jim, as if it wasn't upsetting enough to
discover
> that most of my favourite
> noir novels aren't noir, you now tell me that
every
> time I eat too much I'm
> being evil. Lucky you've never seen what's in
my
> pickling jars.
Most of the complaints about my definition are that it's TOO
inclusive. Which novels do you think I'm excluding?
> BTW, when you compiled your list of novels
from
> which you extrapolated the
> twin epithets that define noir, did you
deliberately
> choose to ignore those
> novels which weren't sinister, or was that just
an
> accident?
Which "sinister" novels do you think I ignored?
JIM DOHERTY
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