William wrote:
"I think we're getting lost in rusty and discarded romantic
notions that might have been the last swill in the bottle as
F. Scott Fitzgerald faded into a soiled and untender night
dreaming of crazy babes, jazz tunes and class-climbing. Those
guys came with the dust and are as gone as farm land as
sobbing Okies kiss the sky. We're talking protagonists. We
can be heroes for just one day . . ."
While that may answer what a hero is no more, what is one in
your estimation?
I gave several examples of PIs I believe were not heroes,
including a murderer (not in the Mickey Spillane judge and
jury sense, but to kill a criminal partner), a child
molester, an assessory after the fact to a murderer (again,
not for justice, but to help a "black widow" femme fatale),
blackmailers, etc, . . .
Yes, all of these are protagonists in their own books, but
how are any of them heroes?
Mark
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