I wanted to start a post like this for Lolita. We have a main thread for critical review which is certainly fun, but this is for interesting lines or phrases. We may want to be careful we don’t get too out of hand with DH and his industrial revolution dialogue.
Taking an example from Lolita, this [...]
Category Archives: Red Harvest
Favorite Moments in Red Harvest
10 December 2006 – 3:58 pm
Dashiell Hammett’s Red Harvest
3 December 2006 – 12:37 pm
What are the images evoked by “red”? What are the title words telling us?
I first heard Personville called Poisonville by a red-haired mucker named Hickey Dewey in the Big Ship in Butte. He also called his shirt a shoit. I didn’t think anything of what he had done to the city’s name. Later I [...]
