Re: RARA-AVIS: Is Spade in or out?

Mari Hall (Found.Dead.In.Texas@airmail.net)
Mon, 24 Nov 1997 13:31:01 -0600 Kevin Smith wrote:
> Was Sam Spade a bit light in the gumshoes?
One guy suggested the usual clues: Marlowe refusing to sleep with
Carmen, trashing the bed after she leaves, his general refusal to sleep
with women in the early books, etc., etc.

Well, I don't -like- to think so, as a matter of fact, I never thought
so, but I think maybe his refusing to sleep with Carmen, could be the
tenor of the times; it wasn't the '90's and the '60's after all hadn't
happened. There are some of my heros whom I would still like to be
"cowboys" and not discover they have feet (or other parts of their
anatomy) of clay.
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