At 09:52 AM 10/03/2005 -0800, you wrote:
>I don't agree with your comment that noir
questions
>the desirability of attempting to extract oneself
from
>the abyss (transcendence?). Just the opposite,
I
>think. The struggle is everything. It defines.
The
>fact that the deck is stacked doesn't matter.
The
>point is that you're in the race, win or lose.
With
>all the fumbling, fear, and fuck-ups, there is a
grace
>and beauty in the struggle.
The struggle in noir is for survival. Noir may or may not
admire the human struggle, but it recognizes that there is
only one way to transcend life.
And to my knowledge, noir does not generally concern itself
with an afterlife.
Best, Kerry
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