Re: RARA-AVIS: Carroll John Daly more influential than Dashiell Hammett?

From: Terrill Lankford ( lankford2000@earthlink.net)
Date: 26 Feb 2007


-----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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