On 27 February 2001, Dick Lochte wrote:
: I find it odd that readers (on this list especially) get
bent out of
: shape by Peter Temple's comment about Gardner and Cain
being forgotten
: but have not taken issue with his statement that "Hammett's
equipment
: was second-rate. His prose was only slightly less wooden
than that of
: most pulp-magazine writers, and there is something naive
about his
: world view."
That just didn't make any sense to me, so I ignored it.
Bill
-- William Denton : Toronto, Canada : http://www.miskatonic.org/ : Caveat lector.
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