Re: RARA-AVIS: "Maltese Falcon" and "The Big Sleep" (fwd)
dspurlock@humana.com
Wed, 7 Oct 1998 14:59:36 -0400
<< I don't feel like I have enough experience to comment
on Spade, but
Marlowe, that's another story. I think that Chandler, being
the
intellectual that he was,
gave Marlowe an Aristotelian sense of ethics. That is, Marlowe
belive that
people *should act* is a moral, upright fashion. Marlowe's
fatalism comes
from the fact that no one has any morals whatsoever in his
world. >>
Interesting idea. On the other hand, you might say that Spade
thoroughly
believes in the Fallen nature of man. This certainly follows
along with
Hammett's satanic descriptions of Spade. -- Duane
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