<<But there are plenty of noir stories, including many
by Cornell Woolrich the "definitive" noir writer, in which
the protagonist does NOT lose.>>
Another example is Kent Harrington's noir classic "Dark
Ride". The protagonist wins, or loses everything, depending
on what you consider a loss. But I agree that loss is the
more common consequence. A lot of noir characters are losers,
too, right from the beginning.
Regards,
MrT
=====
"Don't just do something, sit there!" Thich Nhat Hanh
__________________________________________________ Do You
Yahoo!? Yahoo! Games - play chess, backgammon, pool and more
http://games.yahoo.com/
-- # To unsubscribe from the regular list, say "unsubscribe rara-avis" to # majordomo@icomm.ca. This will not work for the digest version. # The web pages for the list are at http://www.miskatonic.org/rara-avis/ .
This archive was generated by hypermail 2b29 : 22 Apr 2002 EDT