--- M Blumenthal <
blumenidiot@21stcentury.net> wrote:
> All this discussion about Spenser made me wonder.
He
> now has many
> established allies --Jewish female,
African
> American, homosexual, Italian
> hoodlum and Native American. There's also
Pearl
> TWD I guess the next book
> he needs a Moslem Asian cat lover of far
eastern
> descent to have the books
> appeal to virtually everyone.
And let's not forget the Latino Chollo, the vertically
challenged Bernard J. Fortunado or the Chinese grad student
who translates for him in a couple of the novels. (Spenser
actually goes so far out of his way to describe Fortunado as
short, the way he banters with Hawk or Teddy Sap about their
"otherness" that I think he considers shortness just as
"otherly." Maybe his point is that all otherness consists of
rather silly distinctions.
And let's not forget that Spenser himself is Irish, an ethnic
group often considered "not quite white" like the Jews,
especially in certain parts of Boston.
Personally, I think Spenser's next sidekick is going to be a
drug addicted Martian single parent with multiple personality
disorder in a wheelchair who nonetheless can do just as many
one-armed push-ups as Hawk--which is to say, an infinite
number.
G.
===== George C. Upper III, Editor The Lightning Bell Poetry
Journal http://www.lightningbell.org/
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