tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7217199.post7127467734382311131..comments2024-03-24T11:30:08.199-07:00Comments on Can you believe?: Fictional shortsJohan Maurerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13771067774042071617noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7217199.post-6971903801380713312011-09-21T01:32:50.104-07:002011-09-21T01:32:50.104-07:00Susanne, this is a crucial element of my own exper...Susanne, this is a crucial element of my own experience that I completely left out of my comments. Depending on the detective and the context, I experience him or her as my alter ego or my partner. In the case of Harry Hole, I don't experience exactly the same binge and remorse cycle, but I do have very similar internal conversations.Johan Maurerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13771067774042071617noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7217199.post-49311108080262463502011-09-20T19:48:00.882-07:002011-09-20T19:48:00.882-07:00In my mind, a crime novel at its best is a narrati...In my mind, a crime novel at its best is a narrative Christian anthropology. God said "Thou shalt not kill" and created almost all of us with a strong aversion to killing and death. And yet some among us kill... How can that be? What causes us to violate that taboo? A good murder mystery echoes the mystery of the act of murder, and the detective in the story is like my alter ego who pursues the mystery for me. It helps me understand the mystery of what it means to be human, somehow.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7217199.post-54394157289574352742011-09-17T01:28:11.602-07:002011-09-17T01:28:11.602-07:00Thanks, Jeremy. I'll go find those clips.Thanks, Jeremy. I'll go find those clips.Johan Maurerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13771067774042071617noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7217199.post-31476295299152324232011-09-16T15:26:54.396-07:002011-09-16T15:26:54.396-07:00Charlie Musselwhite is magnificent as usual. I do...Charlie Musselwhite is magnificent as usual. I don't know of a better blues harpist. Thank you, Johan.<br />Nearby on Youtube are some tracks of Sunny Girl, a blues singer and harpist from Ann Arbor, who is (or was) only about 10 years old. Check her out, she's really good.<br /> Jeremy MottJeremy Mottnoreply@blogger.com