-----Original Message-----
>From: Brian Thornton <
tieresias@worldnet.att.net>
>Sent: Feb 26, 2007 11:06 PM
>To:
rara-avis-l@yahoogroups.com
>Subject: RARA-AVIS: Carroll John Daly more
influential than Dashiell Hammett?
>
>Also, I predict that Terrill and Jim D. will patch up
their differences over Altman in opposition to my basic
premise that Daly was a hack of the first order. Kenneth
Robeson should have been so bad. I can practically hear the
hairs being split now:
>
>Jim D.: "But what is the definition of 'hack'? And
does he have to be 'good' (and what is the definition of
'good'?) in order to be 'influential'? And what is the
definition of 'influential'?....
>
>Terrill: "Notice that Mr. Mertz did not claim that he
was 'better' than Hammett,' merely that he was 'more
influential.'....
>
>;D
>
>Am I wrong?
>
>Discuss!
>
>*ducking*
>
>Brian
>
I'm a bit ashamed to admit this, but I don't think I've read
any Daly and if I have, I've completely forgotten it by
now.
Luckily, under the new rules of engagement, this no longer
has to impede me from voicing an opinion anyway. :)
(Just kidding, folks!)
TL
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