I see. The "choice" involved makes it more of a devil-complex
than devil-as-character for me.
----- Original Message ---- From: Allan Guthrie <
allan@allanguthrie.co.uk> To:
rara-avis-l@yahoogroups.com Sent: Sunday, August 26, 2007
9:43:51 AM Subject: Re: RARA-AVIS: The Devil and Jim
Thompson
It's
certainly not spelled out and it's open to interpretation,
but there's a character who chooses to live below ground, is
renowned for his evil and refers to himself as 'the worst
demon'.
Mosley only has one 'e', of course.
Al
----- Original Message -----
From: Robert Elkin
To: rara-avis-l@ yahoogroups. com
Sent: Sunday, August 26, 2007 1:47 PM
Subject: Re: RARA-AVIS: The Devil and Jim
Thompson
The Man in My Basement? Don't see any devil character there
unless I'm forgetting.
----- Original Message ----
From: Allan Guthrie <allan@allanguthrie.
co.uk>
To: rara-avis-l@ yahoogroups. com
Sent: Sunday, August 26, 2007 7:31:27 AM
Subject: Re: RARA-AVIS: The Devil and Jim
Thompson
Having Satan as a character in a noir novel is very likely
enough for the
book to be marketed as horror. But you might want to check
out Walter
Moseley's THE MAN IN MY BASEMENT and Fletcher Flora's
WHISPERS OF THE FLESH.
Al
----- Original Message -----
From: "Lawrence Coates" <coatesl@bgnet. bgsu.edu>
> Also, just wondering if, in the collective
experience of Rara Avians, the
> devil as a character
> showing up much in noir fiction.
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