Mark Coggins <
coggins@immortalgame.com> wrote:
<< Fortunately, I think Fred has got it right. There's
a sympathy or understanding about the human condition that I
don't see in the other writers' work. We don't even have to
call it compassion; we can call it empathy. I don't think
Hammett or Chandler have much empathy for the people who do
wrong in their books. Macdonald does.
Another way to think about it is Macdonald is more concerned
about motivations and causation than the other two are. And,
typically, the causations in his books have to do with family
history, or, more properly, family karma. And if you read the
Nolan biography, you might conclude the empathy came from
personal experience.
>>
Very well put, Mark. I think much of what you say was
behind what I was trying to say yesterday, and that
compassion and empathy is what one finds in James Sallis'
work. There's the link I was feeling in my gut yesterday
between MacDonald and Sallis.
- Duane
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