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Mark Kohut markekohut at yahoo.com
Thu Oct 22 07:54:56 CDT 2009


Clement Levy writes: 
Cars are quite an issue in IV, maybe, because they're an issue in LA area. We may have another word about it.

I DO have another word about it. P and the cars in IV are noticed more (and described differently) than most realist writers, other detective novel writers do. First, noticed all over the place in the prose. So many did not ALL have to be seen, right? 

But most, they are described by make, model and year.....Now who else getting down cars in LA describes them this way just about every time?  
Most writers might say 'yellow chevy'; such-and-such Camaro.........
There is some kind of 'lovingness' [my word. find a better.] goin' on in the descriptions, yes? 

It reminds me of the way he, uniquely it seems, indicates so many movies with the date. For some reason he wants us to 'get' the whole NAME, Year of a car.  That that 'defines' it or something?


      




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