Bill Denton, writing about a short novel called MY BROTHER'S
KEEPER, notes discussion of the Flitcraft parable:
<< When Sam Spade caught up with him a couple of years
later, he'd created his former life all over again, like God
did for Job. >> This might be a little off-topic, but
since the authors have old testament allusion in their title
and in the Job comparison, I thought I'd note an error (which
might be a meaningful, deliberate error, depending on how the
Flitcraft-type story is being used in the novel): Job gets
everything restored by God (and twice his wealth?), but
there's no mention of his wife. She, who with a bit of
seemingly hardboiled sense told Job to "curse God and die,"
is missing at the end. Doug
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