Ed,
Re your comment below:
> I've wondered about that physical comparison.
Is
> Sam Spade
> being ironic? Bogart doesn't fit that
description
> [tall, blond Satan].
Actually, you know who does? Hammett. And Hammett's actual
first name wasn't "Dashiell" but "Samuel."
It seems that the closer Hammett came to protagonists who fit
his physical description, the farther away he got from
identifying with them in his writing. Hence, the Op, who's
short and overweight, tells his stories in the first person
and we see everything from his point of view. But Spade, who,
like Hammett, is tall, extremely thin, blond, with an angular
face that looks like it's composed from a series of v's
(giving him a rather satanic look), has his story told in an
extremely objective third person style that's very close to
being the prose equivalent of a camera and tape
recorder.
JIM DOHERTY
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