Steinbeck. Of Mice and Men is noir. Think of the Robert Burns
poem; mice and men are doomed, doomed, doomed. Steinbeck
ain't big on campassion, either. He's the dispassionate
biologist peeking through the microscope at his specimen.
Kinda like God, dontcha think? And God is pretty hard-boiled.
I mean, the Last Judgment and all, well, it's so final. You
get screwed for eternity.
Fred Zackel
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