Re: RARA-AVIS: The Devil and Jim Thompson

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


It would be better to say that those given a mantle of the diabolical play at least in part the role of tempter--otherwise the sentence tries to contain a proof of the existence of your S-man.

----- Original Message ---- From: Lawrence Coates < coatesl@bgnet.bgsu.edu> To: rara-avis-l@yahoogroups.com Sent: Sunday, August 26, 2007 11:23:14 AM Subject: Re: RARA-AVIS: The Devil and Jim Thompson

  

    
            Thanks for all the responses. Since I've been on this list, I've kept a file of book suggestions,

and it keeps growing. Mike makes a good point, of course, that the way Nick Corey sees

himself is not the way the Jim Thompson intends us to see him.

And maybe saying Satan with a capital S was a misstatement on my part, and belongs more to

horror. I think, in general, any character who acts as a tempter, inviting others to act out their

inner selves, is playing a somewhat diabolical role. The tempter (or temptress?) is an archetype

that is still much in use.

Lawrence

    
  

    
    

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