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DJ-Anonyme@webtv.net wrote:
Hardboiled and noir literature are filled
with
> men who became
> involved with, at a minimum lusted after and
often
> fell in love with,
> women whom they recognized as unhinged or
worse.
> Indeed, that seems to
> be part of the thrill from some of the
men.
************************************ Agreed. But that's what
sets Sam Spade in a class by himself. He's the original hard
boiled detective; the prototype of Mike Hammer and James
Bond, and the woman does not get to him. Spade can actually
enter the belly of the beast, so to speak, and emerge unfazed
with his concentration in tact. There's really not an
indication in the book or in the film that Spade was
"in love" with Brigid. You have to take that last speech at
face value to believe he does. And, frankly, taking anything
Spade says or does at face value is to underestimate him, as
all the villian and the police find out.
Patrick King
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