On Tue, 27 May 1997 BaxDeal@aol.com wrote: > what detective is the antithesis of Marlowe? > > gee, that would probably have to be Mike Hammer, wouldn't it? Naw--Mike Hammer's the antithesis of Lew Archer. Marlowe is, and was conceived as, an antithesis to the Holmes/Vance cold analytical type. --josh - # RARA-AVIS: To unsubscribe, say "unsubscribe rara-avis" # to majordomo@icomm.ca