debating who Achilles shared his tent with is starting to
remind me of "Law
& Order" fans arguing about whether Claire and Jack had
an affair. i'll just say that achilles' "gay-pride" stance
must have been news to Briseis. as for Ulysses being a draft
dodger, Achilles was the one who dressed up as a girl to
avoid going to war (Reginald Hill has a lot of fun with all
of the above in "Arms and the Women," which is certainly not
hard-boiled but at least a mystery novel so I'm headed in the
ontopic direction. . .) then, the Iliad pretty much starts
with the premise that the war is stupid and anybody who could
have gotten out of it would have been better off. hardly a
patriotic epic.
as far as Chandler and Arthurian heroes... if I recall,
Chandler started out writing about a private dick named
"Malory", so his transition from Arthurian romance to
Elizabethan revenge tragedy for inspiration might mean
something --
- Pictures of perfection, as you know, make me sick and
wicked - Jane Austen
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