Re: RARA-AVIS: The Talented Mr. Ripley

From: mburch5717 ( mburch5717@AOL.com)
Date: 03 Apr 2007


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:
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> >Patrick King wrote:
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> >Ripley may be a genius, but he is absolutely insane.
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> I don't think Ripley is either a genius or insane.
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> He's a clever, amoral, American capitalist trying to make it in
Europe. You know, like McDonalds and Starbucks.
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> Corporations are never afraid to break a few eggs to make an
omelet. And neither is Ripley.
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> He is Highsmith's comment on Western capitalism.
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