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A Scheme for abolishing all Words is one of the wittiest and smartest comments on semantics. (Illustration: extreme close-up from the movie "The Big Swallow" (1901), produced and directed by James Williamson (1855-1933)
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A Scheme for abolishing all Words is one of the wittiest and smartest comments on semantics. (Illustration: extreme close-up from the movie "The Big Swallow" (1901), produced and directed by James Williamson (1855-1933)

Série noire is a French publishing imprint, founded in 1945 by Marcel Duhamel, a collection of crime fiction of the hardboiled detective thrillers variety published by Gallimard.

Anglo-American literature forms the bulk of their collecion:(Raymond Chandler, Dashiell Hammett, Horace McCoy, William Burnett, Ed McBain, Chester Himes, Lou Cameron and Jim Thompson are featured in their collection.



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