In a message dated 4/9/02 2:14:59 PM,
matrxtech@yahoo.com writes:
<< voting for one's favorite characters >>
Welcome back, Mr. T, and thanks for
reminding us what we're about in this voting. "Best,"
whatever it might be designated under other circumstances,
clearly means at least a dozen different things in this
balloting, including
"favorites."
I've read several posts asking about
the possibility of notifying the outside world of our
preferences, and wonder if we aren't beginning to treat what
we're doing and ourselves a bit too seriously. As far as I
can tell, all we're up to is having a little fun and kicking
the can down the road. Tallying every piece of fruit we toss
into a basket and declaring the total as "100 Apples" may be
interesting to us, but it doesn't have much meaning, and I'd
be embarrassed to think we'd treat it as if it did, even in
the name of promoting hard-boiled fiction.
Nevertheless, in the spirit of group
fun, and in response to Bill's appeal for participation, here
are my favorites on this particular morning in the order in
which they occurred to me:
1. Philip
Marlowe
2. Sam
Spade
3. Hoke
Moseley
4. Travis
McGee
5. Easy
Rawlins
6. Socrates
Fortlow
7. Tom
Spellacy - (True Confessions)
8. Kinsey
Milhone
9. Arkady
Renko
10. V.I.
Warshawski
11. Nick
Stefanos
12. Marcus
Clay & Dimitri Karras
13. Buzz
Meeks
14. Hap
Collins & Leonard Pine
15. Chili
Palmer
16. Ernest
"Stick" Stickney
17. Gideon
Moway
18. Harry
Bosch
19. Eddie
Coyle
20. George
Smiley
That's
twenty, so it must be time to stop, but there are many others
that have been great folks to read about.
Jim
Blue
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