Re: RARA-AVIS: The Devil and Jim Thompson

From: Robert Elkin ( rictusaporia@yahoo.com)
Date: 27 Aug 2007


I see. The "choice" involved makes it more of a devil-complex than devil-as-character for me.

----- Original Message ---- From: Allan Guthrie < allan@allanguthrie.co.uk> To: rara-avis-l@yahoogroups.com Sent: Sunday, August 26, 2007 9:43:51 AM Subject: Re: RARA-AVIS: The Devil and Jim Thompson

  

    
            It's certainly not spelled out and it's open to interpretation, but there's a character who chooses to live below ground, is renowned for his evil and refers to himself as 'the worst demon'.

Mosley only has one 'e', of course.

Al

----- Original Message -----

  From: Robert Elkin

  To: rara-avis-l@ yahoogroups. com

  Sent: Sunday, August 26, 2007 1:47 PM

  Subject: Re: RARA-AVIS: The Devil and Jim Thompson

The Man in My Basement? Don't see any devil character there unless I'm forgetting.

----- Original Message ----

  From: Allan Guthrie <allan@allanguthrie. co.uk>

  To: rara-avis-l@ yahoogroups. com

  Sent: Sunday, August 26, 2007 7:31:27 AM

  Subject: Re: RARA-AVIS: The Devil and Jim Thompson

Having Satan as a character in a noir novel is very likely enough for the

book to be marketed as horror. But you might want to check out Walter

Moseley's THE MAN IN MY BASEMENT and Fletcher Flora's WHISPERS OF THE FLESH.

Al

----- Original Message -----

From: "Lawrence Coates" <coatesl@bgnet. bgsu.edu>

> Also, just wondering if, in the collective experience of Rara Avians, the

> devil as a character

> showing up much in noir fiction.

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