hahaist011's Diaryland Diary ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- cutest couple (it's hot-ish, and how stale and unprofitable seem the uses of a hot-ish world, don't you know. so i am trying trying trying not to ) what is excellent: the introduction robert b. parker wrote for hammet's Woman in the Dark (um, 1933 and pretty much the second-to-last thing hammet ever finished). you know parker: spenser in boston. (and even if eu say you don't, you do; meg powers reads him when she is not reading woodward & bernstein et. al.) excellent--parker writes it all spare and even hard-boiled, and then he steers it tragic. check: ...To my eye the happy ending seems a bit forced, as if Hammet, in order to bring Brazil and Luise together after all, might have bent his hard-eyed gaze away for a moment. I'm rather glad he did, in truth. I too am sentimental. But if it worked all right here, it led him into a swamp that nearly drowned him in The Thin Man. It was as if Hammet could not accomodate Spade's Flitcraftian* view with his impulse to write, at last, of love. ...Woman in the Dark is subtitled, after all, "A Novel of Dangerous Romance." It is a conjunction Hammet never quite tried before. It is a conjunction that works pretty well here. It never worked so well again, but for Hammet, the writer, nothing else did either. ........................................ some people really know how to have a good time.
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