Re: RARA-AVIS: Hard-boiled Dick Francis

From: Steve Novak ( Cinefrog@comcast.net)
Date: 24 Feb 2008


Sorry...forgot the strip...here it is as an attachment...

On 2/24/08 12:33 PM, "Steve Novak" < Cinefrog@comcast.net> wrote:

> I love the ³....Hardboiled? Soft-boiled? Parboiled?.... ³ and I have looked
> for and seen many other combinations...
>
> ....in that vein and to help the overall wit-level on rara I strongly
> recommend the following website:
> http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/...
>
> ...where I found this highly relevant strip...given some of the recent
> ³woody² controversies...
>
> Enjoy,
>
> Montois
>
> On 2/24/08 11:44 AM, "Kevin Burton Smith" < kvnsmith@thrillingdetective.com
> <mailto:kvnsmith%40thrillingdetective.com> >
> wrote:
>
>> > Dick wrote:
>> >
>>>> >> > Hardboiled? Soft-boiled? Parboiled? I suppose it's in the mind of the
>>>> >> > reader. But I think some (not all) of Francis' novels are filled
>>>> >> > with too
>>>> >> > much sadistic violence and detailed torture, too many depressed

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