Hi Ben,
First of all, thank you for joining us this month. I know you
have some fans here who are interested in your ideas about
your own work and hardboled/noir in general.
So let me start the ball rolling. Last month while visiting
Boston, the list got into a discussion of sidekicks,
especially Hawk. Many, including myself, believed that Hawk
quickly became a device by which the dirty work in the books
could get done without getting Parker's hero's hands dirty,
so Spenser remained pure and noble.
Your PI Leo Haggerty also has a highly skilled sidekick,
Arnie Kendall. Although Arnie is clearly better at it than
Leo, has long trained himself to be a modern day Samurai
(well, I guess Ronin, as he has no master), Leo never escapes
responsibility, is always complicitous in any violence that
occurs. In our brief conversation when I invited you here,
you had some very interesting things to say about this. I was
hoping you would share them with the class.
Thanks, Mark
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