'Down these mean streets ...'
POSTED BY: AINTWEJUST
UPDATED: Wednesday, April 25, 2007 19:07
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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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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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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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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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