carrie: and why do more detectives, even hard-boiled ones,
own cats as opposed to dogs? does it tie into the HB hero as
loner? Think about DeNiro in "Heat":
"Never have anything in your life that you wouldn't be
willing to walk out on in 5 seconds flat." That's a
hard-boiled credo if I ever heard one; is there a dog owner
alive who could live up to that?
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well, i hate cats. but i've never been more bored and
disgusted by a man-and-his-dog relationship than vachss's
burke and his mutt. geez... i think burke drooled more than
the darn dog.
and should we start a thread for hardboiled strange pets?
burke's dave robicheaux had a raccoon in _black cherry
blues_.
miker
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