Hammett's original draft was more violent.
From a letter to his editor-to-be, dated March 20th
1928:
"The middle of the book, as it now stands, undoubtedly is
more than somewhat cluttered up with violence, and I am
thoroughly willing to make whatever changes you consider
necessary... In the enclosed revised pages, I have cut out
the dynamiting of police headquarters (page 134); have cut
out the attack on Reno's house (page 176); ... and have
changed the dynamiting of Yard's house (page 149) to a simple
shooting off-stage. These changes will, I think, relieve the
congestion quite a bit."
Al
----- Original Message -----
From:
harry.lerner@mail.mcgill.ca
To:
rara-avis-l@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Sunday, June 24, 2007 3:20 PM
Subject: Re: RARA-AVIS: *Red Harvest*
For me, "Red Harvest" was indeed an almost
never-ending parade of
violence that served as a way of just getting by
in "Poisonville".
But, I also think that buried within all the
violence is the perenial
struggle to, if not overcome our own inherent
darkness, at least to
continue the struggle to come to terms with it.
Maybe there are
sublter ways of depicting this process, but few
are quite so memorable.
Best,
Harry
> I know I have it one of these shelves around here in
a
> five-by.
>
> This time, I'm going to try to see what all the
fuss is
> about. To me it was just non-stop action and mayhem
leading
> to not much of anything.
>
> Jack Bludis
>
>
>
>
>
>
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