JIM DOHERTY wrote:
> If you're going to arguewith somebody, deal with
the
> issues he or she has raised. Brian never
said
> corruption, racism, etc., didn't exist, and to
suggest
> that he did as a way of showing the fallacy of
his
> arguments is to fight unfairly.
************* I quote Brian:
"...the only landscape Ellroy is exploring (mytho-poetic or
otherwise) is the interior landscape of his own dark, twisted
psyche..."
I interpretted this as meaning that the world Ellroy
portrayed was a mere reflection of himself with no foundation
in reality. It still doesn't look like an unreasonable
interpretation to me. I'm standing by it. And I realized that
I was overstating my case and I believe that Brian saw the
humor I intended.
> What Brian implied, and it's a fair point, is that
the
> TOTAL corruption Ellroy shows, in which there is
NO
> character acting from good or noble purposes is
at
> least as far from reality as a presentation
that
> suggests that there is no brutality, corruption,
or
> racism in the ranks of American law
enforcement.
Well I didn't know how to take that statement. I saw some
good in some of the characters in every book I read of his.
Bucky and Lee might not have been saints in BLACK DAHLIA, but
at least they were trying to bring a murderer to justice.
Wasn't their supervisor a good guy? Same for the rest of the
Quartet. And I think there was a guy or two in AMERICAN
TABLOID who at least started out half-way good.
miker
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