So, behavior & emotion are 1:1? That's nice & easy,
although not necessarily logical. Why close off debate?
What's wrong with ambiguity? Is there really such a problem
with simultaneous different views when all are supported by
the text?
----- Original Message ---- From: William Ahearn <
williamahearn@yahoo.com> To:
rara-avis-l@yahoogroups.com Sent: Friday, October 5, 2007
6:55:26 PM Subject: Re: RARA-AVIS: Cain and Hammett
--- Robert Elkin <rictusaporia@ yahoo.com> wrote:
> Patrick:
> Well, your last sentence is something Spade
himself
> says; as for the rest of it: maybe yes, maybe
no
> [but interesting in any case]. One can
form
> whatever opinion one likes based on the bare
facts
> of the text, but in the end, the ambiguity
refuses
> to go away. And such a thing makes it doubtful
that
> any informed opinion, no matter how much one
might
> disagree with it, could "miss the whole point,"
as
> you put it to KS.
Be that as it may, she does go off to jail, n'est-ce
pas? If that doesn't answer the debate, I don't know
what does.
William
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