Saturday, March 11, 2006
The Detective
De Quincy said that anyone would be jealous of his own duplicate; "and if I had a doppelganger I might attempt the crime of murder upon him."
Genet was "haunted by the idea of a murder which would cut me off irremediably" from our world.
But Chesterton got it right when he declared: "The criminal is the creative artist; the detective only the critic."
Genet was "haunted by the idea of a murder which would cut me off irremediably" from our world.
But Chesterton got it right when he declared: "The criminal is the creative artist; the detective only the critic."
