{"id":3,"date":"2007-01-19T17:57:45","date_gmt":"2007-01-19T22:57:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.elsweb.org\/nsftmfx\/2007\/01\/19\/sirach-4013\/"},"modified":"2008-07-03T23:57:22","modified_gmt":"2008-07-04T03:57:22","slug":"sirach-4013","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.elsweb.org\/nsftmfx\/2007\/01\/19\/sirach-4013\/","title":{"rendered":"Sirach 40:13"},"content":{"rendered":"

The wealth of the unjust will dry up like a river, and crash like a loud clap of thunder in a storm<\/em><\/p>\n

Hammett’s The Glass Key<\/em><\/a> is an inquisitive, frustrating, claustrophobic, & catatonic novel, in its writing style, character etchings, & plotline. The book is blunt. It bleeds & howls with pain & subsequent pleasure. It is boring, & yet exhilirating. It’s funny & yet I can’t say just exactly why it makes me chuckle. What seems trite in the brief sentences & ignorance of the comma in attributing speech (how important is that colon, anyway?) somehow pulled together in the end. Twisting, mangled non-descript characters are given their dues, whether it be death, prison, betrayal, or a dame to wrap an arm around. Certain phrases throughout the story become repetitious (perhaps a bit superstitious as well?), & somehow this is all supposed to be on purpose? I believe it. No one could craft a novel this minimal with such a punch packed in on accident. I thought it was uneducated & poorly-made. I was wrong.<\/p>\n

This is a book of intrigue, inside & out. From Ned Beaumont to Paul & Opal Madvig to Shad O’Rory to Janet Henry & the illustrious, criminal Senator, no one is genuine. They are all two or three-faced & about as opaque as the night sky. Somehow this slim, barely-constructed novel makes it case without ever seeming over-the-top or (perhaps a worse fate) sleep-inducing. Someone give this man<\/a> a medal & some whiskey.<\/ins><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The wealth of the unjust will dry up like a river, and crash like a loud clap of thunder in a storm Hammett’s The Glass Key is an inquisitive, frustrating, claustrophobic, & catatonic novel, in its writing style, character etchings, … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[310,309],"class_list":["post-3","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-filmtext-culture","tag-literature"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.elsweb.org\/nsftmfx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.elsweb.org\/nsftmfx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.elsweb.org\/nsftmfx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.elsweb.org\/nsftmfx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.elsweb.org\/nsftmfx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.elsweb.org\/nsftmfx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.elsweb.org\/nsftmfx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.elsweb.org\/nsftmfx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.elsweb.org\/nsftmfx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}