Bill Crider (abc@wt.net)
Thu, 09 Dec 1999 20:51:16 -0600
At 08:42 PM 12/09/1999 -0500, you wrote:
>Bill, isn't part of the hardboiled mystic that some
of the tough guy
>protagonists, especially the PI/Marlowe types, are
knights in tarnished
>armor?
I agree. What I was trying to say (obviously not very well)
was that it
_is_ OK for the hard guys to have a soft center. Plenty of
them do. Bogart made movies about a lot of them. But somehow
I don't think Parker would ever give anybody fifty
bucks.
Bill Crider
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