Coincidentally, I have been sketching out a few remarks on
MacDonald's Tan and Sandy Silence for a library discussion
program. I refer to the "tin-horn Gawain" line, as well as
the earlier reference (seemingly) to Don Quixote's comic
knight in the Deep-Blue Goodbye. I recall the famous stain
glass window that Marlowe sees in the beginning of The Big
Sleep, when he says he'd like to climb up and help the knight
untie the naked lady. Don't remember that thinks of hiimself
as the lone knight very often however (?)...
Found myself wondering...What other series' detectives
compare themselves to knights in a romance, suggesting
something like a high chivalric code motivates them?
Bill Hagen
billha@ionet.net
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