miker:
Do you have any examples? The only one I can come up with
where the character is able to crawl away from the abyss is
"The Name of the Game is Death", but with that one you expect
at the end that Drake is irrevokably, permanently
screwed.
--Dave
--- In
rara-avis-l@yahoogroups.com, Michael Robison
<miker_zspider@...> wrote:
>
> Dave Z wrote:
>
> I agree with your mortality angle in a
sense--except
> instead of physical mortality I look at it more as
a
> spiritual mortality; the noir character has
been
> screwed over or psychically damaged to the point
where
> there's just no hope.
>
> **********
> I'm sorta inclined to agree with this, except
there
> are occasional works which have a heavy noir feel
to
> them and yet the protagonist manages to crawl out
of
> the abyss.
>
> miker
>
>
>
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