btw. I'll use an analogy for porn also for defining noir: you know it
when you see it.
--Dave
--- In rara-avis-l@yahoogroups.com, Brian Thornton
<bthorntonwriter@...> wrote:
>
> Thank you, O Sage, O Woodrell, for finally shining the beacon of
knowledge
> upon we poor, benighted masses.
>
> Authors defining "noir" is sort of like porn actors defining money
shots.
> Either you do it, or you don't.
>
> Sheesh.
>
> Brian
>
> On Fri, Jan 30, 2009 at 12:33 PM, Michael S. Chong
<menglish47@...>wrote:
>
> > "I just brought noir back to town, man. Both sides of that story do
> > exist, the unbelievably generous and kind smalltown stuff happens
two doors
> > down from the shotgun shack and the woman who sells her twelve
year old
> > daughter for ten bucks a throw. I focused on the noir. Not to start a
> > fracas, but hardly anything in books or films that others call
noir would
> > pass muster as noir by my indices----a saxophone, a blonde and an
unfiltered
> > cigarette do not make a thing noir. Pure noir is a direct bastard
child of
> > Greek Tragedy, a bastard child that was raised by the bunch that
would have
> > it, that being gutterbound underbelly proseteers and their
disciples. Such
> > novels are among the few places to encounter the POV of the underclass
> > expressed as if to other underclass folk-that is to say as
truthfully as can
> > be. I am as proud to be considered related to them (I mean,
Thompson, Cain,
> > Edward Anderson, Charles Williams, Kromer, James Ross, LeSieur,
Goodis and
> > the
> > rest) as I am to any of the sanctified names."
> >
> > From an interview posted at
> >
http://www.breaktech.net/emergingwritersforum/View_Interview.aspx?id=18
> >
> > Michael
> >
> > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
> >
> >
> >
>
>
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>
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