"Chris Martin" <
cptpipes@hotmail.com> wrote:
<< Mark mentioned:
>I kept thinking about Hammett's Flitcraft story
while
reading 3 to Kill.
>Beams fall into Gerfaut's life. And they
keep
falling for a while. He
>comes completely loose from his civilized
shorings
and aligns himself
>with the nature of his new world, even becomes
a
killer, first in the
>moment, then calculatingly. When that plays
out,
though, it does not
>staisfy him. Flitcraft recreated a life much
like
his old one when the
>beams stopped falling. Gerfaut goes even further
and
just steps back
>into his own old life, telling everyone he has
no
memories of the past
>year, as if none of it happened. And in a way,
it
didn't. Nothing has
>changed.
Interesting that you bring up the Flitcraft story in
connection with 3 TO A KILL. Check the review of this novel
posted to my site, The Pulp Rack, back in October. Great
minds think alike.
http://pulprack.com/arch/000037.html#000037
- Duane Spurlock Proprietor The Pulp Rack http://www.pulprack.com
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