Noir Classics

[David Morris]

Oh, so instead of "strictures" (what I call critical judgement) you just
take it on faith that AtD characters  "have tehir specific, reasonable,
worthwhile fuctions."

I tend to think that "memorable" is a basic requirement of decent fiction.
How naive I've been.
Dave Monroe <against.the.dave at gmail.com> wrote:
First:
I've long thought it's pointless to apply such strictures of "good
storytelling" or whatever here, [...]  I tend to think all tehse
characters/elements/events/what have you DO have tehir specific, reasonable,
worthwhile fuctions, they're just not the ones we're generally told to
expect, is all.
Then:
... at any rate, tehy're yr strictures, David, "memorable,"
functional, what have you ...
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