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rara-avis-l@yahoogroups.com, Bludis Jack
<buildsnburns@y...> wrote:
<<<For his time, McGee was caring. And like many men
from that time, any woman who made love to more than one man
in her lifetime--unless her first husband died--was a
slut.>>>
Oh, I agree about the times. And the first two books I could
filter that nicely. In this one, I simply found none of the
characters except Buckleberry sympathetic.
I see things in the Marlowe stories all the time that make me
cringe, but I keep in mind that, in a more modern era, he'd
be less inclined to refer to blacks as "shines" and might be
a tad more charitable toward women. And in THE HIGH WINDOW,
Marlowe even tweaks the nose of those very attitudes.
(Because of that, I thought of the lawn jockey Marlowe kept
patting on the head as a less-enlightened garden
gnome.)
It's clear McGee is a caring man in his own way, and some of
the women he beds could stand to loosen up or indulge
themselves a little. But in this one, it just didn't work for
me.
Jim Winter
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