just finished reading The Butterfly.............. reprinted
by Vintage in Three from Cain.......... therein is printed a
preface Cain wrote to The Butterfly. Read like his version of
On Writing. six pages well worth the stopping by to see him
separate himself humbly from Hemingway and shrug off any
resemblance to Hammett ("I've only read 20 pages of him in my
life....") I particularly liked his call for fiction writers
to dispense with "hesaid"
I still like Double Indemnity the best.
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