>Can't we think of the ghetto metaphorically
then,
>related to the psychological trap of an abusive
relationship?
Or any other combination of a social and psychological trap
which is hard to deal with unless you can develop unusual
mental and moral strength??? she wondered....
>Holmes is able to walk the
>walk and talk the talk, but I didn't think we were
disputing about him.
It might be fun...
>All committing a
>> murder means is that you have, deliberately and
with
>> malice aforethought, taken another person's
life
>> unlawfully; it has no effect on your
hard-boiled
>> status.
And I don't see why it isn't just as much a sign of failure
of the imagination and personal weakness. Look: I know a man
who is at least close enough to being a murderer that he is
putting his feet up on death row at the moment, and believe
me this guy is neither hard-boiled nor strong in any sense:
he is a fool and a victim, as much as the man he did
(or didn't) kill. His physical toughness is, believe me,
irrelevant.
MM
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