>> No, actually, this happens to be true of crime
fiction and
>> literature in general from the '50s...It's not
hypothetical, it's
>> a fact that writers were constrained then and I
used Goodis as
>> the likely example.
Anytime you're guessing what someone else would have done
without any basis or fact, it is purely hypothetical. Now if
you had listed Ed Wood (Plan 9 from Out of Space), that
would've been a reasonable guess ...
Come on, even today there are writers who don't use
profanities. And you won't find any in EQMM or AHMM (I just
sold a story to EQMM and had to clean up the language). Is
using profanities in writing creating a more natural,
realistic writing or is it a cheap way out? I don't know -
again, I haven't come to terms with this one yet.
> No offense taken at all. I thought we were just
generalizing...
Here's something to take offense at: How about them
Knicks??
(back in December, after the Sox won the World Series and the
Patriots were rolling towards another Super Bowl, Jason, a
delusional NY fan tried to argue with me about the Jets
chances, and finally came back with "How about those
Celtics?" - I guess at the time the Knicks were one game up.
Kind of pathetic ...)
-Dave Z.
------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor
--------------------~--> In low income neighborhoods, 84%
do not own computers. At Network for Good, help bridge the
Digital Divide!
http://us.click.yahoo.com/S.QlOD/3MnJAA/Zx0JAA/kqIolB/TM
--------------------------------------------------------------------~->
RARA-AVIS home page: http://www.miskatonic.org/rara-avis/
Yahoo! Groups Links
<*> To visit your group on the web, go to:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/rara-avis-l/
<*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email
to:
rara-avis-l-unsubscribe@yahoogroups.com
<*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to:
http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
This archive was generated by hypermail 2b29 : 23 Mar 2005 EST