The problem with hardboiled fiction and film is that it leaves me feeling hopelessly conversationally inadequate.
I wanna spit out terse, snappy dialogue like that!
The only time I ever actually stole a good line from fiction was a swipe from a Frederick Nebel short story. I screwed something up and was being taken to task by one of a group of friends. I apologised and they wouldn't let up.
So I responded, "Hey, I said I was sorry. You want me to set it to music?"
From the Mike Shayne film, The Man Who Wouldn't Die (1942).
The problem with hardboiled fiction and film is that it leaves me feeling hopelessly conversationally inadequate.
ReplyDeleteI wanna spit out terse, snappy dialogue like that!
The only time I ever actually stole a good line from fiction was a swipe from a Frederick Nebel short story.
I screwed something up and was being taken to task by one of a group of friends. I apologised and they wouldn't let up.
So I responded, "Hey, I said I was sorry. You want me to set it to music?"
Worked like magic.
Wish it was always like that.