'Down these mean streets ...' by AINTWEJUST

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'Down these mean streets ...'

POSTED BY: AINTWEJUST
UPDATED: Wednesday, April 25, 2007 09:07
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Wednesday, April 25, 2007 7:56 AM

In an essay entitled "The SImple Art of Murder," Raymond Chandler describes what the perfect private detective is, in his estimation -- essentially a tarnished knight in an unfriendly world.

And I quote:

"Down these mean streets a man must go who is not himself mean, who is neither tarnished nor afraid. The detective must be a complete man and a common man and yet an unusual man. He must be, to use a rather weathered phrase, a man of honor. He talks as the man of his age talks, that is, with rude wit, a lively sense of the grotesque, a disgust for sham, and a contempt for pettiness."

Remind you folks of anyone we know? *grins*

AINTWEJUST

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Wednesday, April 25, 2007 8:10 AM

MSG

oh oh oh...I know this....is it....Jayne?

No wait Mal

"I'm not all that interested in the mental health of people who want to kill me. "- Leroy Jethro Gibbs

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Wednesday, April 25, 2007 8:23 AM

TINADOLL

No its Mal- Jayne has no honor as he will see you out the highest bedder

he would make a horrible Klingon

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Wednesday, April 25, 2007 8:56 AM

AINTWEJUST

Most Klingons would make horrible Klingons. Very few of them seemed to truly understand the concept of honor -- except of course for Worf -- and he was Starfleet, too. *grins*

I think Jayne was actually learning the value of honor and other human values during the course of Firefly -- so by the end of Serenity, I'm pretty sure he "got' it.

*smile*

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Wednesday, April 25, 2007 9:07 AM

CHINDI

the Captain... sigh. and Zoe.

nice quote. thanks.

Chindi

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