(urth) Off-topic Question

dcooperv dcooperv at mail.rochester.edu
Sat May 17 20:12:47 PDT 2008


You could probably put Hammett and Chandler in there, possibly on the
irreligious side. I say this only because (IMO) it's near-impossible to have an
intelligent discussion of the genre without acknowledging these two, given the
significance of their contributions. I always saw them as existentialist more
than anything else really. Of course, existentialism does not preclude
religiosity by any means (and nothing bugs me like a false dichotomy!). Read
Dostoeyevsky and Martin Buber for good examples of this.
Can you give us a more specific idea of your thesis? If nothing else, this could
spark some enlightening conversation.

-Dan Vince

PS: Didn't Doyle have Holmes study Theravada Buddhism at some point? You might
want to do some research into that.



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