"The girl gasped. It was a perfect story. As an explanation of the whole mystery, it was the only possible one that was convincing at the same time - and even then it read like the creation of some imaginative novelist's brain. It wanted some digesting."
-Leslie Charteris, "The Policeman With Wings" IN Charteris, Enter The Saint (London, 1968), pp. 75-131 AT 6, pp. 105-106.
Good night.
3 comments:
Kaor, Paul!
These snippets you quote from Charteris helps us to understand why Anderson was a fan of The Saint stories.
Merry Christmas! Sean
They make a good point, too. Fiction -- narratives -- and 'real life' are inseparably linked, because human beings tell themselves stories all the time. And the stories that are deepest in their psyches in turn deeply influence their perceptions and actions.
Kaor, Mr. Stirling!
I agree. That's why good literature of any kind RESONATES with readers and LASTS.
Merry Christmas! Sean
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