BEER: Epigraph -

[Mark Kohut]

NICE find, real nice.....'master of disguise'.....New York as masked, hidden, not natural ----(natural: as some of 
the most positive aspects of P's vision of the human)

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From: Bekah <bekah0176 at sbcglobal.net>
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More on Westlake's epigraph:  "If New York were personified… "  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p0ptliV4fzc

How can you recognize the real New York? It's tough. ''New York,'' says the author Donald E. Westlake, musing on the role of the city in crime fiction, ''is a master of disguise.''
http://www.nytimes.com/1999/10/31/nyregion/they-love-new-york.html

Bek

On Oct 13, 2013, at 6:15 AM, Bekah <bekah0176 at sbcglobal.net> wrote:

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> "New York as a character in a mystery would not be the detective, would not be the murderer.  It would be the enigmatic suspect who knows the real story but isn't going to tell it."
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> Westlake was a prolific and highly regarded crime writer - capers mostly - popular in the late 20th and very early 21st centuries.  He wrote under a number of pseudonyms. 
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> Interesting epigraph and I think it sets the tone and setting for the book nicely.  Is it possible that NYC is the "enigmatic" suspect?  Not for 9/11 but possibly for other crimes in there.  More likely NY could "possibly" be the narrator. 
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> Just a thought -  (I like Epigraphs.) 
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