On Sat, 13 Jun 1998, Kevin Smith wrote:
> Regarding Huck Finn. Another (and perhaps closer)
example of a classic
> American novel which contributed to the hardboiled
(or is it hard-boiled?)
> detective mythology is James Fenimore Cooper's
Leatherstocking Tales.
> Ponderous brain-clogging prose, now, but in The Last
of the Mohicans, The
> Deerslayer, The Pathfinder, The Pioneers and The
Prairies, Natty "Hawkeye"
> Bumpo, a "man without a cross", daring to "speak the
truth consarnin' you
> or any man that lived," does all sorts of P.I.
things, like being an
> outsider working mostly alone in a corrupt and
violent world, trying to
> hold on to a personal code of honour, carrying a gun,
and working on a
> wandering daughter job or two (or quest, if you
like).
>
> I'm not a professor or anything, just a guy that
reads, but it strikes me
> that Hawkeye is the link between Arthur's knights and
the private eye.
>
> (and here's a little trivia: in a French graphic
novel quite a few years
> back, the lead hero, a Hollywood private detective
was named
> Hippolytus...Finn... H. Finn? Given that the myth of
America is a popular
> one in France, it's probably not a
coincidence.)
>
> And I'm wrapping up the Streeter novel. Sorry, guys,
for helping to inflict
> it on you. The first one, The Low End of Nowhere, was
much better, really.
> The Long Reach is a bit of a downer.
>
>
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