(urth) STFU

don doggett kingwukong at yahoo.com
Fri Mar 27 09:33:22 PDT 2009



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--- On Fri, 3/27/09, Chris P <rasputin_ at hotmail.com> wrote:



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> The cop is not a Wolfean hero, he is a bend-the-rules sort
> of cop who has been called on out of the blue to pay back a
> favor and is annoyed.

Yeah, but he appears again several times, but this sort of raw vulgarity is nowhere to be seen, nowhere else in the novel, and nowhere in any of Wolfe's other works that I've read. I'm a big fan of tactical vulgarity in fiction but it was really jarring here, and I can't imagine it was done just to show this guy is a "tough as nails" detective.

Don


      



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