Bill,
Re you point below:
> Who would you rather be, though? I think
Chandler's
> been so influential
> because we want to be Marlowe, not the
Op.
I see your point. Marlowe seems more obviously heroic.
Nevertheless, I thing I'd rather be the Op
(assuming I'd be allowed to lose weight), precisely because
he's a straightforward, matter-of-fact guy who's loves his
job and is damned good at it.
Telling point. At the end of the first Op novel, BLOOD MONEY,
the Op tells his boss, the Old Man, that he's taking two
weeks off.
At the end of the first Marlowe novel, THE BIG SLEEP, Marlowe
kvetches about the fact that he can't take a vacation because
he might miss a case. The travails of the small
businessman.
For myself, I prefer to be a paid employee for whom time off
is a right, to being the owner of a shoestring business
wondering how I'm going to make ends meet.
JIM DOHERTY
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