STFU

Chris P · 27 Mar 2009, 19:23 · from 2009-March.txt.gz

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From: rasputin_ at hotmail.com (Chris P)
Date: Fri, 27 Mar 2009 19:23:21 +0000
Subject: (urth) STFU
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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

OK, but at the same time in his later appearances he also seems more polite. Possibly because he's in more control of the situation, rather than possibly having been called up in the middle of the night to do some (seemingly unnecessarily) convoluted task.

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