Jim wrote:
"A lot of hard-boiled stuff is about behaving morally and
honorably. Certainly that's true of Chandler. But a lot
isn't. Do you really regard that towering testament to
violence and selfishness, Richard Stark's Parker, to be a
paragon of moral virtue?"
Just because Parker is not "a paragon of moral virtue" does
not mean that the series does not deal with moral choices. A
lot of "does not"s in that sentence, but can't the bounds of
morality be explored by looking at someone who lives outside
them?
Mark
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