ATD & Raymond Chandler

[Humberto Torofuerte]

Wonder if the name Basnight has any symbolism in this context...bas as in
French for 'low' (or bottom?) and night as in....a figurative long, dark
period of the soul....associated with both the experience of personal
desolation and a precursor to a spiritual awakening.  Basnight the
ontological detective?

On 1/10/07, Mike Weaver <mike.weaver at zen.co.uk> wrote:
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> Lew Basnight:
> Personally I can't help but wonder about Luba's Knight ( or Luba's
> night) as in the formidable femme of Gilberto Hernandez' Love and
> Rockets series. La Vida Locas got a mention in Vineland...
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> The Lew Archer reference is a must. Ross Macdonald said of his
> character if you turned him sideways he'd disappear. The books work
> by Lew asking questions and then more questions and the focal
> characters of  each drama gradually reveal the entanglements and
> agonies of the past which have produced the current situation that
> Lew has been called upon to resolve.
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> A quick look on the web just led me to this.
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> http://www.boston.com/news/globe/ideas/articles/2003/11/02/the_last_testament_of_ross_macdonald/
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> >"My concern," Macdonald said in 1971, "is to tell the story of
> >others. So I've deprived Archer of a private life." Over the years
> >Archer became, in Macdonald's words, "almost pathologically selfless."
> What better description of Pynchon?
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> Got there from
> http://www.thrillingdetective.com/archer.html
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> Mike (who used to collect Ross Macdonald paperbacks with an eye to
> the most inappropriate covers - he was in that respect the Kilgore
> Trout of crime fiction)
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