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Holmes is the great rational detective. Father Brown the great moral detective. Both English. But what would Arsène Lupin, the great romantic thief from France
by alfl 6y ago
Holmes is the great rational detective. Father Brown the great moral detective. Both English.
But what would Arsène Lupin, the great romantic thief from France, teach?
Great artists steal.
- bobthechef 6y agoThat is a false dichotomy. Morality is a matter of reason and every human action is a matter of morality. The decision to reason correctly and submit to reason, as opposed to engaging in sophistry or frustrating and subverting reason to smuggle in immoral action, is a moral decision.
- burrows 6y agoMorality is a poison emanating from the weak and vindictive.
- robin_reala 6y ago(Side note, but I’ve produced all-but-one of the US-PD Arsène Lupins for Standard Ebooks, and am currently transcribing Memoirs of Arsène Lupin—new for 2021—to go up soon. All free and libre: https://standardebooks.org/collections/arsene-lupin https://standardebooks.org/collections/arsene-lupin)
- paol 6y agoVery cool. I'm a big fan of the standard ebooks project and it really seems to have picked up steam (i.e attracting contributers like yourself)