Re: RARA-AVIS: Re:form/formula

From: Steve Novak ( Cinefrog@comcast.net)
Date: 31 Jan 2008


I wish you a big glass of red Argentinian wine for dinner...it should get you relaxed...

I¹ll have some Chilean white as I watch the boring snow fall down...

Le montois de D鴲oit Cinefrog@comcast.net

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On 1/31/08 4:54 PM, "Patrick King" < abrasax93@yahoo.com> wrote:
--- Steve Novak < Cinefrog@comcast.net <mailto:Cinefrog%40comcast.net> > wrote:
>> > Auster, Robbe Grillet, Perec all are on the fringes
>> > of crime/noir, playing
>> > with the genre, playing with the themes, the
>> > characters, l¹atmosph貥, the
>> > style (above all)....all very worthwhile...check it
>> > all out...very rewarding
>> > no matter what and it unclogs the neurons in ways
>> > thousands of other
>> > crime/noir stories won¹t
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> This is very true. Reading these writers, as I have,
> will teach each of us the elements of a story to avoid
> so as not to come off pretensious horse's asses, and
> the elements of style to avoid so as not to bore the
> majority of our readers to death.
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> Patrick King
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