ENGL 324 Lecture Notes - Citycentre, Gambling, Rust Belt
3 Dec 2012
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Reason knights don"t have any place in the game is because except for the queen in chess any other figure is rigid in its movement. Always moving in anticipation of other person always thinking ahead. There isn"t any rule system that can be written in advance and applied to messy social situations that marlowe finds himself in. In the world of la in late 1930s (of vast wealth, corruption, double crossing, duplicity) a world that throws whole chessboard over. In other words, if going to be successful as detective, politician, blackmailer, gambler etc need to be light on your feet/do things that are not as ethically defensible. Commentary on gentile detective story? carefully plotted structure and cast of characters. Money moving from rust-belt to sun-belt cities. Partly due to decline of the inner city, to better climate, better economic climate. Transformation in north american culture and economics. La is a sun belt city centre of aerospace and weapons economy, it.
