The most interesting aspect of the book to me, was the
problems presented to a murderer who has not been detected.
Many books seem to assume that if you've gotten away with a
murder, one pretty much forgets the crime. For normal people,
this cannot be true. Watching Marshall's paranoia destroy his
life gave me a lot to think about regarding things I'm
working on.
The second degree murderer who is not psychotic has an awful
lot to process.
Patrick King
---
harry.lerner@mail.mcgill.ca wrote:
> Reading FRIGHT I find a number of passages seem
very
> desolate and
> hopeless. For example, while Preston is on
his
> honeymoon he deeply
> laments some recent actions of his. The couple
of
> very brief chapters
> that deal with this are quite sparse in words
but
> very expressive in
> their desolation. I wonder if this scene could
be
> taken as good
> example of what Ross MacDonald once said as part
of
> a talk he gave in
> 1954 at the University of Michigan. He
was
> referring to Poe when he
> paraphrased Carlos Williams by saying that Poe
was
> faced with "...the
> task of forging a means to express his
sensibility,
> to objectify and
> artistically ameliorate the sense of guilt
and
> horror which he
> perceived in himself and suffered, perhaps in
poetic
> anticipation, for
> his society." Does this ring at all true in
light
> of the insights we
> have been given on this list lately
regarding
> Woolrich as a person and
> an author?
>
> Best,
> Harry
>
>
>
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