Re: RARA-AVIS: Re: Parker

From: JIM DOHERTY ( jimdohertyjr@yahoo.com)
Date: 19 May 2002


Brian,

Re your comment below:

> As for Hawk, I think he
> was (also initially)
> intended to be the dark half of Spenser, the Satan
> to Spenser's Lucifer,
> doing the things that Spenser sees need doing, but
> refuses to do because
> he's the sort of person Hawk lovingly terms a "boy
> scout".

What's the difference between Satan and Lucifer? There the same entity. Do you perhaps mean St. Michael and Lucifer (or Satan if you prefer)?

Parker has commented at least once that I know of that Hawk WAS intended to be the "dark side" of Spenser, and that making the character African-American was part of that metaphor.

JIM DOHERTY

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