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« Last post by Front-Ranger on August 26, 2025, 05:28:20 pm »
That was a good article. I did my genealogy and got only minor surprises.
I reread the article on Elmore Leonard in the July 7 & 14 issue. Now I'd like to read his biography and maybe one or two of his books. Not really inspired to see any of his movies, though. Here are a few of the better passages.
"'They're not trying to be funny, they don't know they're funny,' Leonard said of his characters. 'They just are.'"
"Leonard...does them the honor of flavoring his registration of their chatter with that perfect hint of them. The technical term for this...is style indirect libre....It has a noble track record, with Jane Austen and Flaubert as front-runners...."