Mike,
Please provide a reading list so I may correct my ignorant
ways.
Terrill
P.S. - You might want to also actually illuminate us with
your wisdom while you're at it instead of just making
assumptions about my library.
Ripley is a sociopath. Psyche breakdowns of the terms and
functions of corporate structure have found that the
fundamental concept of the American Corporation is
sociopathic (or maybe psychopathic) in nature. I think the
Supreme Court also defined a corporation as being a
"fictitious person." That's very Ripley. (There's a great
quote out there that my sleepy brain can't pull up all the
way. Something about a corporation being "a public company
devised to avoid personal responsibility" or something like
that. Teddy Roosevelt maybe?)
Having dealt with agents, attorneys, producers, publishers,
distributors, managers, directors, actors, writers, IRS
agents, credit card companies, and "businessmen" of every
stripe over the last thirty years I can safely say that I
have met more Ripleys than I care to count.
I don't find the character in the books that unusual.
-----Original Message-----
>From: mburch5717 <
mburch5717@AOL.com>
>Sent: Apr 3, 2007 9:49 AM
>To:
rara-avis-l@yahoogroups.com
>Subject: Re: RARA-AVIS: The Talented Mr.
Ripley
>
>Terrill,
>
>With all due respect it's time to set down the pulp
fiction for a
>while and read some history and economics.
>
>Mike
>
>
>
>
>
>--- In
rara-avis-l@yahoogroups.com, Terrill Lankford
><lankford2000@...> wrote:
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> >Patrick King wrote:
>> >
>> >Ripley may be a genius, but he is absolutely
insane.
>> >
>>
>>
>> I don't think Ripley is either a genius or
insane.
>>
>> He's a clever, amoral, American capitalist
trying to make it in
>Europe. You know, like McDonalds and
Starbucks.
>>
>> Corporations are never afraid to break a few
eggs to make an
>omelet. And neither is Ripley.
>>
>> He is Highsmith's comment on Western
capitalism.
>>
>
>
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