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Then he launched into the main body of the work, a long poem called “Play” which, he told us beforehand, was perhaps the jokiest of the book and so fitting for a city like ours that loves to have fun and loves to laugh.

Archive 2009-04-01 Dodie Bellamy 2009

Then he launched into the main body of the work, a long poem called “Play” which, he told us beforehand, was perhaps the jokiest of the book and so fitting for a city like ours that loves to have fun and loves to laugh.

Temporary Gang Dodie Bellamy 2009

The Charles on the page has a lot more in common with the author's earlier protagonists (especially Continental Op), who clearly don't have a clue what's happening around them, but succeed by taking a crazy situation and exacerbating it to its breaking point another really telling omission (on a par with the excision of the Flitcraft narrative from Maltese Falcon) is the interpolated tale of cannibalism, which casts an extraordinary pall upon even the jokiest moments of Hammett's Thin Man...

The Thin Man Ed Howard 2009