Jack,
Re your comment below:
> NOIR is fatalistic. You can see the
protatonist's
> doom from the opening pages. It's mostly
about
> people who were born to lose or those whose
fates
> have undergone a reveral, which can be
stalled
> but not stopped. Everything they do digs the
hole
> deeper untill a bulldozer covers them
over.
But there are plenty of noir stories, including many by
Cornell Woolrich the "definitive" noir writer, in which the
protagonist does NOT lose. You may have something about the
character being in less control the outcome than fate (again
this is often the case with Woolrich), but the outcome isn't
always a tragic one. What IS always present is a dark and
sinister atmosphere.
JIM DOHERTY
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