Donna wrote: For me, 'hardboiled' holds out some hope,
whereas
'noir' doesn't. There's something compelling about a noir
protagonist that keeps you reading, and, sometimes, hoping
that he'll win through, even though you know that any light
at the end of the tunnel is just a really, really big
train.
****************
>From MOBY DICK:
"For, thought Ahab, while even the highest earthly felicities
ever have a certain unsignifying pettiness lurking in them,
but at bottom, all heart-woes, a mystic significance, and, in
some men, an archangelic grandeur..."
miker
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