Clearly I'm going to have to reread Maltese Falcon to see if
I still feel that Spade did indeed love Brigid, but I do have
to question the arguments against it that flow from the logic
that Spade recognized her as a psychopath from the beginning,
THEREFORE he could not have loved her. Hardboiled and noir
literature are filled with men who became involved with, at a
minimum lusted after and often fell in love with, women whom
they recognized as unhinged or worse. Indeed, that seems to
be part of the thrill from some of the men.
Mark
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