Davis on Chandler

[John Carvill]

Well, I would say that rather than 'having the sensibilities of both',
it would be more accurate to say 'having the sensibilies of neither'.
They don't get on with the cops, they hate the gangsters. They're not,
ahem, copacetic with either.



2009/8/20 Otto <ottosell at googlemail.com>:
> Interesting point about the noir gumshoes, sitting inbetween a binary
> opposition...
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> 2009/8/18  <kelber at mindspring.com>:
>> This is kind of an interesting take on Marlowe that I hadn't seen before.  Noir detectives are poised halfway between the cops and the underworld, owing allegiance to neither, but having the sensibilities of both.
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